My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

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.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.