Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

For me N.M.E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

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

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.

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

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.