I’ve always done two things: photography and music. I was better at photography than music, but the punk movement in ‘77 gave me and other people the opportunity to play music quite easily. The main thing was not to study music, but just to play it loud. That was okay for me, because I’m not a really good guitar player. That was the perfect movement for me in my adolescence. 

At the same time, I was taking classes in photography. I won something like twenty-five thousand Belgian francs in a photographic contest called Brussels Is Love. Don’t ask me why, that was the time. With this money, I bought a guitar and an amp. I began to listen to Pink Floyd and tried to mimic David Gilmour. I also did band photography. My friends and all the gigs were in Brussels. I started the band with my ...