I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

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

When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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