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I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so essential that when I'm involved in the actual process, my so-called 'real life' becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.

A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.