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

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

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.

You really have to have a goal.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

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.