You don't drive a car then?
I wish I could. I tried in 1990, but I worried about my driving lessons. My whole week became full of neuroses revolving around the lesson. Perhaps it's to do with coordination.

So how do you get around?
Buses mostly. I liked the tube when I first came to London, but I like watching the world go by. I did a drawing from a bus once. You get a different perspective from on top. It's a good place to be. You feel anonymous. It's like a shield.

What was your first bus experience?
School buses, in the 70s. All the hard kids sat on the top at the back and all the swots sat downstairs.

Where did you sit?
At the back of course.

The rebel, yeah?
When I left school, we used to take the bus into central Birmingham on a Saturday night. We were 15 and hung around Birmingham late. I had a friend who took ages to get ready, so we'd hardly get to the town before 10.30 pm. The only thing we could do was get on the bus back again!

Are London buses different?
On a Birmingham bus, everyone always says: 'Thank you driver.' You get chastised if you don't queue. In London rudeness seems to be the norm. People expect you to barge in.

Ever fallen off a bus?
Once, in the mid-80s. It was the 28. They have open backs. I was with my two friends and we'd had something to drink. I dropped my pencil case and it fell off the bus. I decided to go with it. The driver must have thought I was just a bag falling off, so kept on driving. My friends were screaming. I landed quite well. Drink makes you better at falling over.

Is there such a thing as bus rage?
Yeah. One guy had a go at me when I pressed the bell too soon. We had a a fierce exchange. Then there was that time of request stops when, if you were new to the route, you had to guess if the bus was going to stop.

Don't you get angry when it's going really slowly?
I overheard a driver say they get penalties if they bring the bus back too early. So they pull in at empty stops. I wouldn't want to be a bus driver. It seems dangerous. A friend was a bus driver, and he got threatened a lot - over 50 pence as well.

Ever had sex on a bus?
No. Never found it romantic. Good place for flirting though.

Gillian Wearing is a Turner Prize winning artist