In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' when I was a kid and say 'Yeah!' or 'Boo!' at every single song. So there was nothing in the middle. You brutally put it on one side or another.

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

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

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.