I think architecture has to be a gift.
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
My buildings are more famous than me.
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.