My buildings are all on budget.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.