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" Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. "

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" I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. "

" There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money. "

" 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. "

" I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps. "

" My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens. "

" I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. "

" A friend of mine once wrote a silly article about all these metrosexuals like David Beckham wearing sarongs, and she described me as a 'heteropolitan.' I don't know what that means. I think it was a joke. "

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

" I don't know whether other asthma sufferers find this, but I've noticed that even when I've got my asthma under control, I often develop another problem such as an ear, chest or sinus infection and sometimes even joint pains. "

" I am a big fan of long drop, composting toilets - I like the cycle of using waste. When you have experienced one and seen what comes out of the bottom, it is amazing stuff. It's the most beautiful, driest, sweet-smelling compost. "

" It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered? "

" I've got lots of friends who are musicians, and there is a fair proportion of broken marriages and relationships as a result. You are on the move all the time. It's difficult if you have kids, and it's hard to make money unless you are in the premier league. "

" I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it. "

" Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty. "

" I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. "

" I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me. "

" I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. "

" As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given. "

" Luckily I have never missed a day's filming or work due to asthma. "

" Building design isn't trendy. "

" My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew. "

" I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick. "

" Living an environmentally responsible lifestyle can seem like a Scrooge-like list of don'ts. Don't take that flight, don't buy that car, don't eat those blueberries flown in from somewhere far-flung. "

" 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. "

" If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface. "

" I spend a frightening amount of money on books. "

" One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre. "

" You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence. "

" 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. "

" We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. "