It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

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

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.