I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.

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