It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

Follow your heart

Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die.

nothing is accomplished by writing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by hearing a piece of musicnothing is accomplished by playing a piece of musicour ears are now in excellent condition.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

The Bible's power rests upon the fact that it is the reliable, errorless, and infallible Word of God.

In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.