Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

Artists are like everybody else.

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.

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

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.