I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.

My past won't change my future, but my present can.