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

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

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.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.