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In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

The public is a part of my real life.

Once you're put out there in the public eye, people feel a certain ownership over you.

I mean, that was a throwaway thought, because my focus was - my intent and my focus was to never go public.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space.

It's just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, 'Oh, publicize me!'

The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.