For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.