"I'm pretty much a vegetarian."

"Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair."

"Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood."

"Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get."

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature."

"I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak."

"I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future."

"Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time."

"I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about."

"You've got to build a career and a practice."

"I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places."

"I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function."

"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."