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 used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.