All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

You adapt to who you're photographing.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.