My Favourite Things Are Jokes, Friendliness And

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

We Had The Same Kind Of Unemployment Here As They Had In The Worst Hit Places In The North And You're Meant To Be On A Cushy Wicket In The South. If You Go Up To Newcastle, You Can Tell That The Town's Really Had Money, Or Liverpool, You Know, The Northern Towns Have Got Grandeur, Whereas Medway, Being Just A Sort Of Garrison Town And Dockyard Town, You Don't Have Anything Like Earl Grey Square Or Anything Like That.

I'm Going To Get A Pair Of Wire-snips, And I've Also Started A New Campaign To Have Blank Cds On Jukeboxes So You Can Play The Silence.

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.

I Make Sure I Make A Painting - That's My Job. And I Cook The Sunday Dinner.