I have very healthy strong relationships with women.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.

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.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.