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

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

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. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

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.