I like being on the margins. You work better there.

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

I'm going to get a pair of wire-snips, and I've also started a new campaign to have blank CDs on jukeboxes so you can play the silence.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.