Artists Who Don't Paint Aren't

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 Going To Get A Pair Of Wire-snips, And I've Also Started A New Campaign To Have Blank Cds On Jukeboxes So You Can Play The Silence.

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.

I Loved Moustaches. I Used To Draw Myself With One. When I Was 14, I Was Really Into War And Van Gogh.

I Liked Drawing And Painting, Because The Only Failure Would Be To Listen To The Doubters Who Wanted Me To Stop Drawing And Painting Because 'you Aren't Going To Make A Living Doing That.' I Liked Looking In Art Books At The Work Of Painters.