Everything does come from nature. That's where you get new ideas. Just draw the landscape. I felt doing it with a bit of burnt wood was also good because I was drawing burnt wood with a piece of wood. I wanted to do black and white. After using color, I thought black and white would be good. You can have color in black and white. There is color in them, actually.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.