“I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been in...” — Charlie Rose Quote

“I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.”

“The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.”

“The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.”

“Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.”

“I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.”

“I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.”