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

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

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.

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

I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

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.