The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

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

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

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.