I don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

Making drawings with text in the first place, it really was born of a desire to be economic, and to do things as simply as possible, and to do as much as I could by the most economic means.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.