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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

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.

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.

Damien Hirst

Thinking

But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.

Damien Hirst

Question

A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

Damien Hirst

Work

Art

I always ignore money.

Damien Hirst

Money

Artists are like everybody else.

Damien Hirst

Artists

I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.

Damien Hirst

Life

Suicide

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Damien Hirst

Immortality

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

It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

Damien Hirst

Money

Time

Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

Damien Hirst

Life

Goal

There's no possible way you can get what you want.

Damien Hirst

Want