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.

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 know people went to laugh at my bed and to jeer at it. Still, at least they actually went to see it.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.

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.

All the people in the late '80s and early '90s were really hell-bent on doing something for themselves, and they wouldn't take no for an answer. There was a lot of determination, and I was definitely part of that way of thinking.

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