I pretty much keep everything; we have drawers full of samples and tests and every old catalogue and magazine.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

I am particularly interested in the way that the everyday realities of the world around us change these relations.

I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

I don't think 'Dark Heart' has to be malevolent. It conveys a sense of depth. There is a sense of questioning turmoil.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

I’m sorry I changed… life forced me to grow.

I won a really big fellowship to go straight on to get my Ph.D. And I went through agonies of indecision, and then I decided not to accept it. I just decided I didn't want to be an academic.

I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

I didn't do anything for Russia. I've done nothing for Russia. Hillary Clinton gave them 20% of our uranium.

All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I can't see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.