The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.

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

In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

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