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.

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

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

But I always liked the fact that you get these totally unacceptable images, but they're taken by a really expensive photographer, with great light, and in terms of the quality of the photograph it's a great photograph, but in terms of imagery it's unacceptable, and I like that contradiction.

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

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