If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.

I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.