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

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.

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

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

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