Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
It's shameful what's happening in this country in terms of what we deny our children.
Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.
Every building must have... its own soul.
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.
I can imagine an utter hatred for the jazz avant-garde.
A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine.
Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.