Tracey Emin

Women, at 50, are on a plateau with their careers, but later they ascend.

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for ten times more than that after you're dead, and that's what you have to protect.

I am fiercely independent and I probably wouldn't be if it wasn't for the way in which I was brought up.

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.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.

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.

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

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

My work rarely comes up in secondary market, so it means that my prices stay low.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.