The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.