The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

It is true that there are not many smiling faces in modern art galleries. Happy art is much harder to make. Art and humour are uneasy bedfellows. Artists need strong feelings to motivate them to make things. I am often fuelled by anger.

I think if people really want music they'll search it out.

If you want to be successful in the art world you've got to look to the art world; you don't make it for the bloke next door and then hope the art world is going to look at it. That's one of the big mistakes people make.

I'm concerned with not ever being fashionable.

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

If you're in the culture business, you're not so locked in to your class, or you can have fun with it.