It Is An Artist's Duty To Be

I've Not Been An Admirer Of Contemporary Music Since Punk Rock Went Off The Boil In 1977, But Once A Year I'll Listen To 'spiral Scratch' By The Buzzcocks, Or 'hippy Hippy Shake' By The Swinging Blue Jeans. Otherwise, I Can Put Up With Chopin Or Shakuhachi Flute In The Background.

We Believe In A Society In Delusion, And If You're Awake And Not Deluded People Tell You You're Mad. That's Why I'm A Freak And They're Not. But I'm Actually Not.

I Like Being On The Margins. You Work Better There.

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'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.