It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

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

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

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

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?