A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

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 always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.

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.

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

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

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