In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

Nobody should get married at 17.

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.