When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

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.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.