I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

When I was a child I could do math and art, so I had left- and right-brain capabilities. But I've seen my children, who are more right-brained, struggling. My son was told he wouldn't make it to college, but he dogged it through and ended up being accepted by 10 major art schools after the high school advisor said, "Please don't apply. You're going to be disappointed." That kid's an artist now.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.