You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.
Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.