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

The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.

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

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.

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

At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.