Sgt Pepper made me more famous but it did not change me as an artist. - Peter Blake

Album covers are like any other vehicle, they are a means of illustrating a story.

Brian Sewell is a fool. For some years he seemed to have it in for me and Hockney and [R.B.] Kitaj. Even if he wasn't writing about us he'd always find a way of bringing us in. He'd say, "so and so was a bad artist but not as bad as Hockney, Kitaj or Blake." Things like that.

Most artists go potty as they get older: dafter and madder as they get more celibate. So I am consciously going to do that.