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.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.