Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness.

Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.