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" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "

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" I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes. "

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff. "

" A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. "

" There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. "

" Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore. "

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

" I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "

" My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. "

" A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. "

" An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

" I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. "

" Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

" Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. "

" I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. "

" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "

" I work from the inside out. "

" My buildings are all on budget. "

" For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. "

" I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them. "

" When I went to Harvard and studied planning, I found I didn't have the skills or the strength to become the kind of public person who could go out and lobby government agencies. "

" I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80. "

" When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also. "

" It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. "

" Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao. "

" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "

" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature. "