I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.

I have never had a shortage of ideas for shows. I always just do them and the gallerists don't - they stopped long ago trying to tell me what I should show in their gallery. They just don't even do it. I show whatever I want to show. They are very happy and as far as I know, they have always been very pleased with whatever I have shown, even if it is nothing to sell.

ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

The words represent ideas first of all. That is something you have to understand. I mean, it is not just an object, but it is an object with a history and it is loaded with all kinds of implications and ideas. They exist in the world in a very special way. So they kind of represent some aspect of the world that we perceive, as do photographs, as do drawings of trees or whatever. And they are not a one to one. They are not the world, but they kind of refer to the world and they also exist in the world.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I was good at art - always good at art.