Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

I think self-portraits are very difficult. I’ve always seen mine as straightforward, very stripped down, hair pulled back. No shirt. Whatever light happened to be available. I’d want it to be very graphic – about darkness and light. No one else should be there, but I’m scared to do it by myself. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time. The whole idea of a self-portrait is strange. I’m so strongly linked to how I see through the camera that to get to the other side of it would be difficult. It would be as if I were taking a photograph in the dark.