My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

Awesome is loud but awe is quiet.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

Building design isn't trendy.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.