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 feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.

People tell me they open my e-mails first, because they aren't demands and you don't need to reply. They're simply for pleasure.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?