I think the thing is there's a work for every space, you always have to respond to a context, whether it be a physical context, or a political one, or a cultural one, whatever.

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.

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.

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 feel quite comfortable and happy with making a work that looks like it could have been made by somebody else.

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.