One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

I never thought heroin was very chic.