In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

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

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

I never thought heroin was very chic.

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

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.