Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

We have to base architecture on the environment.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle. I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

Given a limited budget, the most effective expenditure of funds to improve a street would probably be on trees.

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.

Singing is my life. It has always been my life. It will always be my life.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

I think with each record, I don't know ... they're like burdens.

We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to... until they really bite us in the butt.