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'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 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.

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 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.

Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.