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

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.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.