"Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes."

"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."

"I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty."

"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary."

"I still feel like the same girl who grew up in Albion Park. I'm such a family girl. I haven't changed."

"When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been."

"Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan."

"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion."