"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

"Be truthful, nature only sides with truth."

"The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present."

"All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science."

"My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish."

"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"

"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home."