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

I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.

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.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.