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.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

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.