With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.