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 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 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.

The work, I suppose, is made in the editing, whereby I make literally hundreds of drawings, and then a much smaller percentage of those become the finished 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 don't want to just spend my life ridiculing something that I find ridiculous, although there is an element of satire in my work.