I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

I never stopped doing what I did as a child.