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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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