You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

When I create art, it's like holding hands with God.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.