As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

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

I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.

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

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