It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

I think the wrong things are kept private

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.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.