I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

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.