I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".