I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I had visited New York at age 12, and I loved the big buildings and the swarms of people. At 23, I decided to try it. I was going to go for six months, and I ended up living there for 18 years before I moved to California, so I am living the American Dream.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.