Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.
I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'
For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like more, to be more open and enjoy more things, which has given me more opportunities.
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.
I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.
With mania, is it dangerous to ride that euphoric feeling. You feel very animated and creative; I would fill journals with drawings. It feels good and you want it to last, but it can lead to being delusional. The delusions can be as real as you thinking you can fly.
My dream since I was a kid was to show in a gallery.
I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
I moved to New York when I was 15, but my parents lived nearby in Connecticut, so I could go be in this incredible countryside when I needed it.
As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
My mum was one of those people who really wasn't allowed to be an artist, because she worked in a factory and she came from the war and all that stuff. She really has an artist's soul.
In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'
