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.

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

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

When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are our world.

In the period of '60s to the '90s, British art schools were small, and the number of student was small. The personal contact was great.

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.

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