When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more experimentation. Budgets had gotten quite large for art, as they had for architecture. I'm not going to cut back. The minute someone walks through my door, I go, That's my thing and you got to let me do it.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion. They really don't want to be talked about.

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

People's first homes are always disasters. It's like the first time you have sex. It's never as good as later on. It always gets better.