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 have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.

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

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.

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

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

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