I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.