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

I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

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.

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.