There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.

In the end, it doesn't really matter what you paint. It's all just a routine to connect yourself finally with other people.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.

I'm aware that success can overwhelm you. The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it's not you any more.

Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.

I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father.

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.

Poetry gives us courage and sets us straight with the world. Poems are great companions and friends.

I'm definitely old-school when it comes to dating. I'm not into the 'game' so much. If I like you, I'll confront you and be open about it. Then I expect you to come after me.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

A brave nation fights only because it must; a cowardly nation fights because it can.

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.