It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

- Billy Childish

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.

- Billy Childish

I've not been an admirer of contemporary music since punk rock went off the boil in 1977, but once a year I'll listen to 'Spiral Scratch' by the Buzz…

- Billy Childish

My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.

- Billy Childish

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

- Billy Childish

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepar…

- Billy Childish

We had the same kind of unemployment here as they had in the worst hit places in the North and you're meant to be on a cushy wicket in the South. If …

- Billy Childish

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. T…

- Billy Childish

Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is…

- Billy Childish