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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 prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

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When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

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Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

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I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

Billy Childish

I am angry with him but I have compassion for him. The reason I can have a relationship with him is that I don't see him as my father but as an individual. I'm glad I didn't murder him that day. I couldn't have lived with myself if I had.

Billy Childish

I like being on the margins. You work better there.

Billy Childish

Billy Childish

Billy Childish

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Born: December 1, 1959 (age 66)

Bio: Billy Childish is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art.

Known for:

Self Portrait in Hat (2003)
The Drinker (1996)
Billy and Traci (2001)
Chinese Lanterns (2005)

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