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.

For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

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.

When we are no longer children, we are already dead.

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