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 never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

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.