In fact, the first piece of art I ever sold, I paid someone else to make the next one, so I could actually keep going out drinking.

But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.