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

I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

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.

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.