I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

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

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.