I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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.
My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
But the answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it. And just to live. But you're doing that anyway. However you intellectualise it, you still just live.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different.
East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.
I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.
Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.
I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!
I SAW THEIR STUNNING BODIES GO SLACK AND GET HAIR IN THE WRONG PLACES AND I VOWED I WOULD NOT PERMIT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ME.
