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.

To make music I rely on other people, which is good - that's the main difference in painting and music at this stage. They are separate parts of my life really, like having two jobs, one in a bar, one in a lighthouse.

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

Women really like the horses, more so than men.

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.

A lot of my words come to me when I'm out and about as well, riding the bus or sat in the pub. I went through a stage of going to a strip bar called the White Horse at lunch times and did a lot of writing in there. They were fine with that but I don't know how they would feel about me setting up the easel.

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question.