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

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.