When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

I've never been married because, first of all, I don't think I've ever seriously been asked by anyone who I wanted to marry. [...] And also I'm monogamous.

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.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.