Artists Who Don't Paint Aren't Artists.

One Of My Biggest Problems In Life Has Been My Inability To Lie.

We Had The Same Kind Of Unemployment Here As They Had In The Worst Hit Places In The North And You're Meant To Be On A Cushy Wicket In The South. If You Go Up To Newcastle, You Can Tell That The Town's Really Had Money, Or Liverpool, You Know, The Northern Towns Have Got Grandeur, Whereas Medway, Being Just A Sort Of Garrison Town And Dockyard Town, You Don't Have Anything Like Earl Grey Square Or Anything Like That.

I Like Being On The Margins. You Work Better There.

I've Not Been An Admirer Of Contemporary Music Since Punk Rock Went Off The Boil In 1977, But Once A Year I'll Listen To 'spiral Scratch' By The Buzzcocks, Or 'hippy Hippy Shake' By The Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I Can Put Up With Chopin Or Shakuhachi Flute In The Background.

I Loved Moustaches. I Used To Draw Myself With One. When I Was 14, I Was Really Into War And Van Gogh.