"I left school on my 15th birthday."

"It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres."

"I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men."

"All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead."

"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."

"In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait."

"Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work."

"My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it."