Jamie Hewlett

“I grew up doubting myself. It was a very spotty, frustrating, worrying time.”

“The more you draw, the better you get.”

“I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.”

“I need to find a way of retaining creative control.”

“I can draw and paint in many different styles, and use different mediums to create work.”

“When I'm working on something, if I went to an exhibition of an artist I respect, then I usually come home quite depressed and look at what I'm doing and throw it all away and start again.”

“I love zombie films.”

“I don't like collaborating too much.”

“I can't see anybody wanting to go to 'Tank Girl: The Musical!'”

“I took a lot of influences from Studio Ghibli, which is the Japanese animation studio that made 'Spirited Away' and 'Castle in the Sky.' They're like the Japanese version of Disney - but without all the schmaltz.”

“To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.”

“Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.”

“I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.”

“I don't go to enough exhibitions, purely because it intimidates me.”

“That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.”

“When a picture is done, I'm not concerned with it anymore; I'm on to the next thing.”

“I'm always having ideas. I'd like to continue being able to realise the ideas I have.”

“The art world's quite elitist. I tend to skirt around that world.”

“I'm all about doing things myself because I find it hard to trust other people. Not trust, but I know exactly what I want to do, and I know exactly how it's supposed to look.”

“My parents weren't very good at keeping things, which is why I treasure my own sons' work so much now - I don't want to lose anything.”