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

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.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

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.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

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.