As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.