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.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

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

I do believe that painting can change the world.

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.

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

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.