Top 54 Quotes by Sam Taylor-Wood

I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.

I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'

Britain can sometimes feel like a very small village, and you're this, I dunno, scarlet woman they're all gossiping about.

I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.