Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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

Never let money get in the way of an idea

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