Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

I never thought heroin was very chic.

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

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

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

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.