I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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 relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
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.
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.
Relationships can go wrong very simply, very quickly, and when you have children you become more aware of relationships around you.
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 openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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 the process through, and it's not until after I've seen it that I truly understand why I'm doing this.
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.
I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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.
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.
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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.
