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I'm from a working-class background - I had free school meals all my life and then spent six years in art school.
I'm not very party-political, really; I am more strategic than that.
I'm trying not to go through that midlife dip that artists tend to have.
If I was prime minister, I would declare a state of emergency on climate change.
If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill.
If it is good enough for Prince William and Kate, why is studying art history not good enough for the masses?
If people say, 'You can't do that,' you can be sure I will do my utmost to do it.
If you conceal things, they become more charged.
If you cut art from school, you're going to have a lot more looted shops.
Jeremy Corbyn makes me angry. He seems vain.
Living in a warehouse is great - but after a while, you just want a garden.
Maybe it's my Catholic upbringing - I grew up thinking that Armageddon was just around the corner - now I know it is, with global warming and all. I can keep it at bay by doing the work. It's a sort of reverse sympathetic magic. I'm always doing it so it doesn't happen to me.
My father wanted a boy badly and didn't get one, so I was happy to be the surrogate boy. I was very strong, always doing manual labour.
My father was a very controlling man, and it was a big relief to get away from that.
My iPhone has always been my sketchbook.
My mother became mentally unwell with schizophrenia when I was in my teens... We couldn't watch television because she thought the people on TV were sending her messages. She thought there were hidden cameras everywhere, so we had to have the curtains drawn.
My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if you do the wrong thing.
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job.
My work has threads of ideas from all over the place. I try to crystallise them in something simple and direct that the viewer can then take where they want.
Our cultural industries are our biggest export, our biggest manufacturing base. Every pound spent on art education brings disproportionately large returns. It's the biggest bang for our buck. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. In fact, the more you put in, the greater the successes for the U.K. economy.
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