The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

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

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.