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'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

I think the wrong things are kept private

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

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.