The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.