I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

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.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

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.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".