As a non-Catholic, and since I was a child, I have been obsessed with the ritual and the beauty of Catholic art. I look at Renaissance art all the time.

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.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

[John] Cassavetes, "Killing of a Chinese Booker", "Opening Night" are my favourites.

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.

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.

I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.