I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.
I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.
You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
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.
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.
Man who has lived through so many storms will either worship the tranquillity or will detest it!
I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When we use the spiritual Meronian language, the word 'international' doesn't do justice to our band. This kind of psychic language's means of communication can reach galaxies beyond our planet, not to mention the other living and inanimate entities of our own planet.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.