Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

For me, architecture is a social act.

Africa is an extraordinary opportunity at the moment

Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.

I want to get away from people, I want to kill myself.

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done which may take some time you are fierce with reality.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It’s a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

When I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.'

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.