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

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.

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.

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.

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

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.