If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

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

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

Yes, I need to be fed but the need to be loved by friends has been as important to me than any lover I've had all my life. This is part of the reasons that my lovers don't stay because they are jealous of how much I care about my friends.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

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