When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.

I really keep my life very simple.

I've lived in the same place in London for the last seven years, I go and get my shopping, I get on buses, and [all the rest] is pretty much outside of who I am.

The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

I don't think it's realistic for someone to have an undying loyalty to everything you ever make.

I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me.