I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

Then I got this idea in my head that magazines were like a gallery and if you got your magazine page ripped out and someone stuck it on their refrigerator, then that was a museum – someone’s private museum.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.