My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

In a way, it [my style] is an homage. But I didn't really know about it at first. But then when I started living in Berlin in the early '90s, I started getting ID and Dazed and Confused. I was shocked how close things were to my work.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.