I don't want to feel like an ambulance chaser, but very often, when I hear about a fire, my first instinct is to make a piece of art out of it.
My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.
You only get one life, so it seems to me you might as well do the things you want to do.
I do 10 minutes of Pilates every morning if I'm in the mood.
I never got to play as a child. All my spare time was spent working on my family's smallholding.
Art and creativity are crucial, whether you're a mathematician, a scientist, or an artist.
Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.
I was my father's sidekick, in a way. He was a very dominant, forceful character.
Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.
When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with art, I always find I have to defend its existence.
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
Dust, in the end, settles on everything.
Traditional conceptual art is very dry.
I like drawing from all kinds of territories in art.
I am 5ft 10in. I got my height from my dad, who was very rangy. I like being tall.
I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.
Artists and scientists are very close. They always have been, but I think we've just been divided out over the last few centuries into specialisms. Leonardo da Vinci was drawing helicopters and all kinds of things. We're artificially divided. I think we're closer than we think we are.
Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.
I feel our relationship to life, to the rest of the world, is very tenuous. It feels fleeting.
