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

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

When I used to do abstract paintings at school, like everyone else, the tutor said these would make great curtains. I would always neglect the formal stuff that was going on by using colour, because colour kind of came naturally to me.

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.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

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

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.