I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

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.

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.