Did I want to spend all my time working on a painting? No, I wanted to have fun, travel, meet women and live life.

Most forgers are caught because they tell the wrong person about what they do.

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

I think that the most important requirement is to capture the essence of a piece of art. You look at it, essentially absorb it, and you have to be able to understand it visually without having to think about how it was done. I was already able to do that as a child.

The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.

I only painted when I felt like it and needed money. But it never really became a professional thing, even though the dealers would have liked that.