People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well, no, actually, it's just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad,'

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

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

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."