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.

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

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

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.

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

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.