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.

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

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.

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.

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.