I think style is a fringe benefit that looks like you made it.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I don't like building, I'm not a carpenter, I don't like constructions particularly and things like that, but placements and the kinds of psychological weight that different materials have is pretty interesting to me.

My compulsion is to create things.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a kind of intensity there. And however influenced they may have been by other people, even my earliest paintings were recognisably my own.