I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal.

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

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.

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 don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

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

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing...