No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

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.