If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when they can't.

If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.

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.