Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas.

Painting can be like poetry but as somebody who creates both I feel the necessity for both so they cant be that similar. Sometimes I think it's as basic as not wanting to get dirty.

Other people's songs can inspire me, though - I always have music on when I'm painting.

I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.

I don't really need to be inspired by literature though. At the end of the day it's colour and imagery moved around until it works.

Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.