Sam Taylor-Wood Quotes

I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life I'd be Loretta Lynn.

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.

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.

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've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

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

Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.

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 took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

I'd love to have more children. If I'm still clear after five years, I'll think again.

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

I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!

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.

My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.

Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

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

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

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

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