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I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative.

I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

They look at someone like me, and I just really get up their nose. I really wind them up.

I found that life has to be edited to continue.

I thought it would be my one and only exhibition, so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

A man doesn't know what it's like to be a woman; it's that simple.

The soul will always do what it needs to do,

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist ... I had to find a way for myself.

I never grew up.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things ...

I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.

The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

I don't believe in love, but I believe in you.

DON'T BE AFRAID TO TAKE THE PAST HEAD ON.

When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

It pleases me that people can be interactive.

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. And also I'm monogamous.

There should be something revelatory about art.
It should be totally creative and open doors
for new thoughts and experiences.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world

Sometimes I have the most amazing moments of clarity. Razor sharp, crystal clear. It's at these times I can see how fucking stupid I am.

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok

Oh Christ, I just wanted you to fuck me. And then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me.