When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
American women often fall into the trap of, 'Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night.' It's so old-fashioned.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.
Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
