I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.

I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

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