I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

There could be a hundred paintings in every one painting, depending on when you stop.

I'm not one of those artists having people there lying around on their paintings, you know, like Hockney or whoever.

You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a decent painting. Francis Bacon had a special studio built, and he felt completely emasculated in there. I have to be somewhere comfortable.