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.

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 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.

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.

I'm never really that worried about doing something a little different, 'cause it always just seems to fit into what I want to do.

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