I constantly have to negotiate with my doubts.

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

Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.

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.

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

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

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.