I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.