Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're thinking, you just act actually sometimes.

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

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

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.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

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

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.