I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

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.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

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

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.