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

But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

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.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.

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

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.