I have very healthy strong relationships with women.

I wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.

I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.

The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.

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.

My work is received more intelligently in Europe.

I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.