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

For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

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

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.

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