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 think circumstance plays a big part in terms of what I do. For example, if I wasn't ever able to show in an art gallery I probably wouldn't really make very much sculpture. But I've had the opportunity to show in big spaces, so I want to fill up that space in the same way you might want to fill up a page.

I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.

I don't really want to tell jokes about trivia; I'd kind of rather tell jokes about things like life and death.

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.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.