I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?

Drawing takes time. A line has time in it

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

There are enough no smoking places now.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.