My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.

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

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

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

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.