I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

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

In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

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.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.