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.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

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.

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

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.

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.