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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.

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I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

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There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

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I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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Artists are like everybody else.

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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

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It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

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There's no possible way you can get what you want.

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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

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I always ignore money.

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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.

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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

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It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

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The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.

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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

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'Painting like a child' isn't a negative for me... it's something only great artists can really achieve. The childlike quality of some of Picasso's drawings is precisely what makes them so masterful and extraordinary; the ability to express complete visions, feelings and portraits through a continuous line.

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I made one untitled piece.

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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

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