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".

I think the wrong things are kept private

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 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.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

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

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.