I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Youthful life is a beautiful bliss.

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

With Twitter, it's as easy to unfollow as it is to follow.

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don’t want to do something, no one can help you

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

There's a lot of common sense ... which I feel like we have lost touch with.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Pain is only temporary, glory is forever