The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

I always think that fashion isn't just about clothes; it can be applied to anything.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

God has given me a lot of ability to play the game of baseball.

If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world.

No one ever dies an atheist.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.