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

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.

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

I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.

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

I think some people need the assurance of people around them and ideas worked out in advance. I think it keeps me an edge that to be creative on the spot. You have to think of things to do when you meet people. You limit your choices from the beginning. So I don't bring a lot of lenses, cameras, all these elements that can help the picture to a shooting. You confine yourself to, say, one room and you just make it work. You become very creative in that little space. You have left a lot of other options out of the game.

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.