I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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.

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.

I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

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

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

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