We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

I see myself as an arbiter of taste.

I see myself as a traveller.