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.

When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

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

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

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.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.