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.

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

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

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.

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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

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