Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.

Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

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

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 quite like it to be risky. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet. I've arrived at that point in the art world where there really is a chair that you sit in.

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

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings.