If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

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.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

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.

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

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.