You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up and show your character in your face.
My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
[I want to] refuting the whole idea that there is only one way to look; that women have to be so skinny to look good; that they have to be 12 years old and wearing clothes that only women in their 30s and 40s can afford.
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.
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.
Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.
Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.
I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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.
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.
I've been alone for about eight years and it doesn't bother me.
I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.
I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.
Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
I never thought heroin was very chic.
When I started photographing my boyfriend of years ago, Brian, I realised I had no right to photograph other people having sex if I wasn't prepared to take them of myself too
I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
