In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.