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

When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

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 usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

I don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.