Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way..

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead..

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work..

I've always liked New York, as I like towns with an edge and New York has a European feel, so when I came to play music here in the '80s it was a sur….

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable..

I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly..

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw..

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it..

Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny su….

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love..

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence..

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm ….

A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it..

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzz….

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie..

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion..

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable..

Artists who don't paint aren't artists..

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you are….

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. T….

We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If ….