It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense.

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but the ones who took very strong positions. Because if someone does that, you can find your own position in relation to it: what is it that I don't agree with? In the studio I want to articulate a position clearly enough so that other people can use it - or chuck it away if they don't want it.