What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago.

A good day is when no one shows up and you don't have to go anywhere.

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

I come from a traditional theater background.

New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?

For the believer, nothing is impossible. We put limitations on ourselves.

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.