There was something really wonderful about being able to feel confident about doing my first exhibition in China, that people would have no trouble recognising the images and understanding my work. I also have a lot of freedom in the way I use colour, and I think that kind of freedom in colour is also understandable in every culture.

My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.

'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

I wanted to make new works of very contemporary objects, which I thought was interesting because many of them are manufactured in China, but these objects are universal, they go across all languages, all cultures.