My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.