The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.

In '83 I started travelling round Europe with my slide show. It wasn't until I moved to Europe and got accepted in a big way in Berlin in the '90s that I got acceptance by the big art world in New York. I didn't really get to be known, or in the market, til '93 in New York.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

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.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.