"You always have to be comfortable that you're doing the right thing," he says. "It might look dangerous but if you feel you're on the right track, just go for it. Intuition is like a muscle and if you don't train it, you don't improve. You need courage to make decisions and discover the qualities that are sleeping inside."

"As liberal and open-minded as I am, part of me is closed off to the idea of real intimacy. It terrifies me – knowing everything that's going on in somebody's mind and knowing somebody knows what's going on in your mind."

“Nobody ever offered me enough dough to sell out. If they gave me a million I would sell out but they never do that. They’ll maybe offer me 10 grand and a packet of Woodbines. With working-class artists, they hope you’ll sell out for a working-class wage.”

"The women in my family were very forceful. We only watched men on the telly. I thought they only came behind glass. I had no idea you could actually unwrap one." 

You are seeing things that are utterly different from anything in your experience, animals that live upside down, hanging from the tops of trees. Bizarre."

"Culture is all the things we aren't that tell us what we are. Whether it's a painting, a building, or a song, it's those things that tell us who we are better than we could ever say in words."

"I didn't realise how much it was affecting my life. I thought I was just stressed in general but actually it was the fact that I had a flight coming up. Once you take that out of the equation, life gets much easier."