[I influenced by ]the work of early [Michelangelo] Antonioni, Orson Welles and [Carlo] Pasolini, I love [Nicolas Jack] Roeg's film "Performance".

I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

She has that kind of baby face, a very young face. So I was interested in working with Kate [Moss].

One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.