I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.
Most of the art I have is more on the beautiful side than the violent or disturbing side.
As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.
I am a fan of cinema. The genre has never mattered much to me.
People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.
If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.
I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters.
