Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.