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

When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

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

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.

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