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.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

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.

I like to listen to a lot of classical music when I'm painting, the most simplistic stuff I can find. I like simple piano.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

I don't think of myself as a rebellious artist, a lot of people have said that about me because I came from Cornwall and choose to paint people in what they considered to be an urban style instead of Cornish landscapes. I've never agreed with them. It's bullshit.