A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

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.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

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

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.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.