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

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

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.

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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.

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