In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
It is very important to develop the thing that you are naturally good at, that you are truly interested in.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
Today, in British education, we don't have that kind of freedom. Now there are many regulations, many rules, and bureaucracies in the education system. So, it doesn't have the flexibility that it had in the '60s, '70s, '80s.
The person you admire was true to himself. You can only truly honour him by being true to yourself.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
Usually people start with painting and then go on to make installations; my painting came from installation.
When you shoot a movie so quickly you can't really afford to shoot a bunch of extra footage because you don't have that luxury.
How would you have done things differently if you were not afraid?
Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams
I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.