I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
From Sam Taylor-Wood
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 find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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 wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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