My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

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.

At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people I admired in Paris, for French Vogue. This is how I met Maria Schneider in June and which began our friendship.

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

One of the fashion things I ever did was for Helmut Lang for Visionaire magazine and I used people from all genders. People from the age of 18 - like James King - to people like my friend Sharon [Stone] who's about 50 or older. People of all different shapes and literally all different genders and my boyfriend at the time and his daughter who was 11.