Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.