It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

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

I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

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.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

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.

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.