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 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.

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

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.

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