The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

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.

I still go to church occasionally. I went the other day and found peace.

I'm not condemning the Catholic Church - it's too big, it's like condemning a nation and that would be prejudiced.

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!