Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

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.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.