I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

If you like music you like silence actually.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.