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.

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

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

I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

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 just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.