I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

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

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 like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

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

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he's like Olivier. He's one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.