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.

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.

Sometimes you don't know if your memory is because you really experienced it or because you look at your old pictures. I have a nice picture of myself held up by my grandfather and my father standing next to me. We all have the same name - we're all called Anton Corbijn. That's something I cherish.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

I come unprepared to shooting. 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 was given very little time to photograph people and I was very scared.