I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.

I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.

I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.

When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.