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.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

We're physiologically wired differently.

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.

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.