I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.