The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

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

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

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.