Sebastian Horsley

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

I like to remind myself that every morning I'm making a choice to live.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.