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

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

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

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

I think the wrong things are kept private

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.