I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

I have been using the computer as a work aid since the mid-90's. It is extraordinarily well suited to how I think and work and has transformed my practice. Nearly everything I have done in the past 15 years would have been impossible without it. I use the computer for drawing, composing and colour planning everything, from postage stamps to paintings to architectural-scale installations.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings about the objects that surround us. It's also because they are so familiar, we don't think of them as important in the world, but actually they are the world. We are living in a very material world.