Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want. The idea of the rigid style seemed to me then something you needn't concern yourself with, it would trap you.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.