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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

If what you want to do is make good art, decide what's good and try to imitate it.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.

I've always loved painting and drawing. I wish I'd developed it more and exhibited.

It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.