I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.