Tracey Emin

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

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.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.

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.

I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.

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.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

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.

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

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