I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

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.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.

Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.