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?

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

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.

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more.

The high-definition picture is still a perspective picture. That's the real problem, the perspective picture.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.