Debbie Harry - "I love the original shot and it reminded me of the day we shot it at the offices of Dazed & Confused where everything was just so. My desire to reconfigure the shot is just how I feel about my own image sometimes as being 'extrapersonal'"

All images from Destroy/Rankin, all destroyed images ⓒ Youth Music 2009

Goldie - "Whenever you look at a picture of Goldie there are always going to be three or four personas in there - graffiti artist, musician, actor… It was fun to look at an image of myself from a different era and see a completely different person…"

Ian Brown. "The original portraits were showing two sides of Ian’s personality. Now he has made ghosts of himself - it’s almost veiled and to me that is very beautiful. I’m sure if you asked him he’d say it’s just graffiti or something…" Rankin

Jarvis Cocker - "When you are growing up, you look at yourself in the mirror and you realize that you don’t really look like a pop star, so I suppose that’s what amused me - to try and take that not very appropriate material and make it work in some way"

Joe Strummer by Damien Hirst - "I tried to keep it about him as a person. Joe Strummer was a great guy I met, who was much more of a hero in real life. You don’t meet many people like that"

Kylie Minogue - "I saw a box of nail varnish at home, and loved the colors and the sheen - I almost covered the surface but it felt right to stop when I did - I think my friends would see this as being a more accurate version of my character as they would recognize the medium, color and shapes"

Michael Stipe - "I thought it would be interesting to bring the portrait down to its essence, which would be the negation of any detail whatsoever… well, we see enough of me, I picked up what was there, the New York Times and I put that behind it to represent the lack of me"