When there are things that don't go according to plan, London will cope.

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

People have had certain assumptions in the past about Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively reduce.

We can't simply blame the engineers when things go wrong because, no matter how well they plan, things don't always go according to plan.

I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.