I identify with the 99 per cent.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

Art and science have so much in common - the process of trial and error, finding something new and innovative, and to experiment and succeed in a breakthrough.

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

There are people who say, 'Oh, he's a crook.' But I'm not a crook.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.