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

I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

My first thought was always a cigarette. It still is, but I haven't cheated.

A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.