I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

I was brought up to reuse things.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

All clients think that they are architects.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn't even know what feeling is.

Maybe Scotty the Potty turned into Scotty the Hottie. Have you thought about that?

I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I'm traveling toward light.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

They put up this bloke's picture on Crimewatch UK with a phone number and said 'Have you seen this man?' Well my auntie rang them up and said 'No'.

Acting? No, it is not for me. I would be terrible.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.