About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.