Andy Warhol was a good friend of mine. We used to go to the Studio 54 nightclub together with the likes of Liza Minnelli, and we'd dance through the night.
I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.
I would go to the all-night grocery store and pretend that I was at Studio 54 because it was the only place open all night. Truman Capote in the frozen foods. Andy Warhol over in vegetables.
Studio 54 was the place you could never get into. Of course, the place you can't get into is the place everyone is trying to get into.
I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
When I'm driving past the place I used to work, or when I'm driving past the comedy studio where I used to take photos in exchange for classes, or when I'm driving past the yoga studio I used to clean on the weekends - it's not that far removed from me yet. I get very sentimental over things like that.
I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.
The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.
I'd only been to Studio 54 a couple of times, when I was 16.
I have amazing kids, an amazing husband, a fabulous career, wonderful parents. If I had to go through some rough spots to get to this amazing place, so be it.
I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
The key of the success of Studio 54 is that it’s a dictatorship at the door and a democracy on the dance floor.
I hate studios. A studio is a black hole. I never use a studio to work. It's very artificial to go to a studio to get new ideas. You have to get new ideas from life, not from the studio. Then you go to the studio to realize the idea.
So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.