If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

How do you explain the bond between man and wife? Well, for one thing, it's private. What people do in their own marriage is their own business.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.