There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.
Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.
I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.
For me N. M. E. was a very big thing. When I first came to the United Kingdom I started taking pictures for them and I became their main photographer for five years, and that's really been the basis of everything I've been doing since.
I'm a very, very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feel I get out of the people that I meet. But technically I don't think I'm very advanced. That never interested me.
There's only one music video that had an emotional impact on me, and that's 'Hurt' by Johnny Cash. That's exceptional. There is no music video I can think of apart from that one that really reaches you inside.
One of the things that often gets lost in discussions of depression is that you know it's ridiculous. You know it's ridiculous while you're experiencing it. You know that most people manage to listen to their messages, and eat lunch, and organise themselves to take a shower and go out the front door, and that it's not a big deal. And yet you are nonetheless in its grip and you are unable to figure out any way around it.
We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. . . . If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal.
Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.
And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.