Tom Hawking, Journalist

Kanye West makes it as Tom Hawking's top artist of 2013.

"The story is a very different story than the first one; for me, it’s where everything kind of opens up."

Tom Hawking spent 2012 digging Swans and Heathered Pearls when not watching Sons Of Anarchy.

Peter Jackson: "Professor Tolkien sold the rights to both books while he was still alive... presumably he banked the cheque that they gave him."

"If I was making a political movie I'd say so... I've never been shy about being political. A political movie directs you — if you make a movie like that you're like an air traffic controller, saying, 'Go over here.' And that's not what I wanted [with this film]."

Then there's the politics of the beach umbrellas and banana lounges that line pretty much every vaguely popular beach in Europe — who do they belong to?

Conceptual art is a ravenous tumor lodged on the arse of the art world.

Tom Hawking discovers that even a dog gets treated better than extras on the set of his new TVC.