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.

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.