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 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'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'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

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 don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my 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 don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.

I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

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.

Maybe I am the eye candy on the team, but the only mouth I plan on melting in is hers.

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

Sweet Jesus. It was The Delicious in the dark shirt and jeans.

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

Some guys run their house. Some guys run around their house. I'm a guy who runs my house!

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.