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

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved horror films; I like being frightened.

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

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.

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.

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

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.