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.

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

I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just 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.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.