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It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Music was the first art form I ever had.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.