“So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajec...” — Thom Mayne Quote

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

New York is this cacophony - a collection of radical differences, an agreement of non sequiturs. The diversity and intensity are startling.

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

Of course we believe we can always improve because the moment that you think you cannot improve anymore you go backwards.

I've never been backwards in telling people what I think.

The hit rap duo Kris Kross wore their trousers backwards, in the Nineties, and I wore my trousers backwards to a school disco. It led to some bullying.