Commercials are so contemporary and up to date that when you're involved in that visual world, you can't really go backwards.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.