I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.
The photograph isn't good enough. It's not real enough.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
California is always in my mind.