Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

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.

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

Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.

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

Photography sees surfaces, it doesn't see space. We see space but the camera doesn't.

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.