The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.