I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

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.

I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.