People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

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.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

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

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

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

Sometimes when you're looking at your own work, you can't really see, and it's only when you step back a little bit later that you think, "Oh, that's completely in line with everything else I've done".