In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.

I could talk about Blade Runner forever.

You've got to audition! It's tough out there, no matter how well-known you are.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

I approach everything in my life the same way; if it feels right, I know it.

You have never had fair press in America.

Fine art is something wonderful that's left long into the future ... eternal beauty.

We now realize that we're not living in a piecemeal world, but a world where everything is linked together.