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.

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.

A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings...it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

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