When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too

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

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

I never thought heroin was very chic.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

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".