I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

I’m a secretive bastard. I would never let anybody watch me painting… it would be like somebody watching you have sex – painting is that personal to me.

So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a...

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

I’m a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I’ll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don’t want to do that.

But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting...