So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

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

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.