A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

I spend a lot of time writing. I get inspiration from texts rather than images.

I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

Live your Art. Don't think about it.