When I had cancer – of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy – my motto used to be ‘Drips by day, Prada by night.’ I felt that I had to grasp...

Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the greatest actors of our age; he’s like Olivier. He’s one of those people who can take you into a place where no one else can take you.

I love life. I think it’s fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

Money scares me, and it always has done. I’ve got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don’t like to think about it.

I’ve turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

In my life, I’ve never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I always say, and I truly believe this, that my work is three steps ahead of me. I have an idea for something and I tend to feel like it’s leading me and I’ll follow...

Never trust a hippie. That’s definitely my motto.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.