Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.

A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.

I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.