SM: Let’s start with a trivial question: why Gilbert and George and not George and Gilbert? - Gilbert & George

To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.

George: We say that how we are that day made us do that picture and we have to respect that. If you have another thought, that's another picture; it would be another one.

We don't want to know what we are doing. It's much better not to know. You have to express yourselves, once you've finished a group of works you have to start all over again. It's extraordinary stuff - what an artist has to do. You finish a big group of works, then the next day you have to begin again. Forty years we've been doing that.