“My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.”

“You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.”