I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

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

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

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?

Every breath we take as human beings damages the planet.

Generally speaking, I think that if you do anything with commitment and passion, it will come good.

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.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

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.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them.

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness

Those who do not succeed do not believe in their ability to exercise the potential power to forge beyond perceptions of limitations.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

The state's interest in effective crime-fighting should never vitiate the citizens' Bill of Rights.

The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it!

"It gets better." - On his campaign against bullying.

As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.