It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

I've no doubt that those photographs i took will make people look at everything in a more interesting way - the little tear on one piece of paper, the shadow on another. But good painting has always done that - made you see things. And the most ordinary can be the most extraordinary.

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

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

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

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.

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.