The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way on the details that are not at all at the centre of the work.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.