I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

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

Sometimes my kids might tell me they had a dream or and maybe I'll paint some paintings from their dream. That's one good thing you get from your kids. Rob them of their dreams.

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.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.