I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible.

With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I was twelve years old when my mother took me inside and said, "You can't be outside wrestling without a T-shirt on." It was a trauma.