Sometimes I just have a few people over to see the new work, and I think it works better than in a museum situation, where the public is just presented with a large area.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.