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

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

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.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

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

It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.