I'm black, and it's a very important part of what I am. I'm not embarrassed about it.

I don't think I met anyone posh until I went to London.

I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.

We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

I was brought up a Catholic and was an altar boy.

I wouldn't say even that I'm a broadly political person. But on occasion, I have felt that I have no choice but to paint something with a strong moral stance.

I believe in God, but I'm not dominated by it.

I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.

I really like the language of painting.