I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

What's in yesterday's newspaper is today's fish-and-chip paper. If it really affects my life so badly, so personally, then I would do something about it. When it's really out of order, or something possibly detrimental to my family, or I'm driven to such a level that I know that this can be picked up and repeated again, I will just write or e-mail the newspaper editor. So, in the next day's newspaper, it might say, "Tracey Emin says this is factually incorrect."

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

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

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

People try constantly to use me and I hate it.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...