My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.

I dont have big anxieties. I wish I did. Id be much more interesting.

My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.

A number of artists have done things with Mickey Mouse - including Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol. He's such an American symbol, and such an anti-art symbol.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Use the worst colour you can find in each place - it usually is the best.