It Is An Artist's Duty To Be

When I Was Better Known Than Her, She Put My Name In That Tent. I Was Asked To Do Celebrity Big Brother, But Why Should I? We Live In An Age Where Fame Is Not Related To What You Do.

People Could Live Very Happily Without The Turner Prize, But They Could Not Live Without Real Communication And Emotion.

I've Not Been An Admirer Of Contemporary Music Since Punk Rock Went Off The Boil In 1977, But Once A Year I'll Listen To 'spiral Scratch' By The Buzzcocks, Or 'hippy Hippy Shake' By The Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I Can Put Up With Chopin Or Shakuhachi Flute In The Background.

One Of My Biggest Problems In Life Has Been My Inability To Lie.

Before 1999, Tracey Emin And Sarah Lucas Offered To Get Me Exhibitions, But Joining The Stuckists Put A Kaibosh On All That - Because I Wasn't Prepared To Be Controlled. I Agreed To Co-found The Stuckists To Be Allowed To Say What I Wanted, And I Left The Stuckists Because I Didn't Really Want To Be In Them In The First Place.