Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.