I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
You have to have an attitude that nothing's gonna stop me. I think that's just my New York kind of attitude - survival of the fittest.
In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.
I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.
But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
