The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is very difficult to hang because it is so large and the quality is very varied. There are 1,200 works, an almost impossible number, some are interesting and some are not.

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide.

I had been doing wall drawings, but they were always black and white. Then in 1993 I painted all the walls of a room to make an installation and as soon as I saw the colour on the walls, it changed my whole life.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

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

In my early work I didn't use much colour. I had no confidence about how I could do this.