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 don't think of Maria Schneider like idol anymore, because I worshipped her when I was young.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it.

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.