When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Will you pretend you're my boyfriend?

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

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