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.

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.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

I think one's character on the athletic field does not have to have anything to do with the way they are in real life.

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.

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.