The idea that a fashion photograph could make you cry doesn't happen. And I'm proud to say that my slideshows can make people cry.

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

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

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

I never thought heroin was very chic.

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.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.