I Like Being On The Margins. You

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 Like Feeling At Home And Knowing People. I Like Talking About Ideas And Being Friendly.

I Did Not Like Prizes At School. I Didn't Like Tests Or Exams, Or The 11+, Or O-levels. Later I Hated B.a.s And M.a.s. The Reason I Hated Them Is That I Don't Like Being Tested, Failed Or Falsely Praised By Anyone.

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

A Moustache To A Man Is The Same As A Fringe Is To A Woman. When You've Got It, You Want To Grow It Out; When You've Grown It Out, You Want To Cut It.