At the Summer Exhibition, I didn't really change anything; it's the same exhibition. All I changed is the presentation. I didn't really change the rules.

I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.

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.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

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

Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.

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.