I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

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,'

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

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.