I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and...

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it’s one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The...

I’ve always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

I almost never cry, and it’s something I don’t like about myself. I sometimes try and make myself cry. Sometimes, when I’m in pain, I say if I could just cry it would make it...

I’m interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you’d see in a typical...

One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

When you’re no longer ill, and everyone’s gotten over the fact that you’ve had cancer, that core of steel doesn’t go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.