My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

Some people`s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that`s fine. But that`s not why I do them. I`m a gun for hire.

What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting.

Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived I would never again pander to a magazine's requests or follow the ideas of art directors. I would only make images which were personal, which arose out of my own life.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.