One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

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

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 love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

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.

I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.