But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

I think treating a model as nothing but a collection of tendons is done to lessen people's discomfort with the fact that they are looking at a naked person. They think it makes the audience and model more comfortable. But that was not the case when I modeled and I find that others agree. I feel that the sexual component is essential. I feel it is much more objectifying to be a table than a beautiful naked girl.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

I didn't want to be beholden to one person. So I did something where I had hundreds of people who backed the work. I could just do work, and since a lot of people were interested in it, I wasn't beholden to any particular one of them.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

When I started my own business, I funded it as a naked model. I still think that the sex industry can, for some men and women, be a powerful tool for improving their financial prospects.