It takes a long time to make it simple.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

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

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

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

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.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.