We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.