For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame...it's the last thought in the process.

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.

I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.

I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.