I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.
I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.
We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.
There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
