Questionnaires

Q. What should stay the same? A. Love.

Q. What should change? A. Everything: that's just how the world is

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to sing and play guitar better than Caetano Veloso.

Q: If you could live with only one piece of art, what would it be? A: ‘Probably my old Schimmel upright piano.’

Q. What should stay the same? A. I don’t understand the question.

Q. What should change? A. Religious obsessions.

Q: What should stay the same? A: The sky in New Mexico, which is why we live there.

Q: What should change? A: Poverty in the world. Injustice.

Q: What should stay the same? A: Nature.

Q: What should stay the same? A: The desire to tell stories

Q. What image keeps you company in the space where you work? A. An enormous, airbrushed, lenticular hologram of myself.

Q. What do you like the look of? A. The everyday world: grand and microscopic.

Q: What images keep you company in the space where you work?

A: None. I just try to concentrate on what I am doing.

Q: What music are you listening to? A: Things that would disgust my teenage self; I have betrayed her.

Q: What do you wish you knew? A: I wish I knew less.

Q. What could you imagine doing if you didn’t do what you do? A. Drifting on a boat.

Q. What do you wish you knew? A. How to answer questions in a complex, honest and clever way.

Q: What was the first poem you remember reading? A: Beowulf, at school.