The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

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

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

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

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.

I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.