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" My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now. "

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" I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. "

" Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing. "

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" It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me. "

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" I'd like to think I inspire young people to be creative. "

" I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened. "

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" All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever. "

" I never grew up. "

" I've been slagged off completely by the art world. "

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" I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper. "

" What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. "

" People don't remember. Revenge is sweet. "

" There's different kinds of love, and I'd never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love I've experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that there's this other love out there. "

" With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. "

" There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true. "

" It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area. "

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