I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.

Although you might have to creep about at night and lie to your mum it’s actually one of the more honest art forms available. There is no elitism or hype, it exhibits on the best walls a town has to offer and nobody is put off by the price of admission.

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.