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.

In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

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

[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.

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.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.