Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

How far is too far? When you love a band so much that its songs fill the empty spaces inside your head and heart, is that too far?

A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don’t let fear turn possibility into certainty.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

You've got to go after your dreams. If you don't make an effort, nothing's ever going to change.

Work is love made visible.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.