I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

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

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

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

I was recently interviewed for radio in relation to the "Thanksgiving" show [2001] at the Saatchi gallery that I was part of. The interviewer said that people in London were very disturbed that I showed a picture of myself battered ("Nan One Month after Being Battered", 1984) and they thought that I set it up. I was accused of deliberately putting on a wig for that particular picture.

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.