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

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.