I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

As you are working on ideas, you are in a bubble, working on your images. What's important to me in my work, I like this idea of communicating through a piece of art so works don't have to be exchanged. They're okay and they're helpful but most importantly that the image will convey something in my mind that I was trying to communicate and then you have that connection.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

It's much harder to work for yourself, by yourself, than to create work for a gallery, because there are no limits and you can do anything you want. It's always easier when you have a parameter, when you have a limit. You can work within the limit and push it and walk the line, but when you're given absolutely no limits, it's harder. You must really think. It's more challenging.

Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.