It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

I quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.