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

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

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

Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

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.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.