I think we seem to remember things in still pictures. I never gave up on painting. When they said painting was dead, I just thought, Well, that's all about photography, and photography's not that interesting, and it's changing anyway.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.

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

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.