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 feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

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.

When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel.

There are things going on in galleries recently that have shocked me. What I'm going to say is really controversial, but what I find the most provocative is the commerciality of art in general. And the fact that a lot of people have forgotten what the meaning of art is and what the intention behind it is.