I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok

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

When I am ill or upset he jumps up on to the bed to curl up close beside me. But if I am in bed with a hangover he will have nothing to do with me.

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 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.

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.