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".

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.

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

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

If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.