I'm a terrible cook, but if I could cook, I would see that in art as well, it's how much creative energy you put into something.

I know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.

They grew really quickly. One minute I didn't have any tits and the next I had the biggest tits in the world.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this and that, and you're an art critic. Your job is to unravel the "secret" or whatever, and you come across an entity like me. It's going to piss you off. Because there's no great secret, what you see is what you get, and anyone can understand what I'm doing. So, it's almost like I make this critic-person redundant, just by my attitude, and they resent me for that.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up