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.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

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

For me, art is always a kind of theater.