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

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

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

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every day doing self-portraits to fit back into my own skin. I didn't know what the world looked like - what I looked like - so in order to fit back into myself, I took self-portraits everyday to give myself courage and to fit the pieces back together. I used a tripod then.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.