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

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

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

Artists are like everybody else.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.