The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

I've always been very tied to language.