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.

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

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.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

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

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

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