[The design process is in limbo.] We have not had any contact at all, ... I can see that it's precarious.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.