I Like Being On The Margins. You

Failure Is Fantastic, Because You Meet Yourself And Get To Know Your Limitations. This Is How I Express Myself, And I Can't Do It Any Other Way.

I've Always Liked New York, As I Like Towns With An Edge And New York Has A European Feel, So When I Came To Play Music Here In The '80s It Was A Surprise To Me.

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'm Not Trying To Achieve Perfection. I Don't Like This Forced Control People Have Over Work.

It Is An Artist's Duty To Be On The Wrong End Of The See-saw.