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 love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.

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

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

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.

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.