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?

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden – I’m greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn’t. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over.

I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.