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My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.