I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

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.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

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