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.

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

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.

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.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

My way in for photographing people is really their work. I'm always interested in what people make, and then I photograph the person. Sometimes the person is a disappointment. But that's the risk. It informs me a lot about the character of a person if I know their work first.

I think the fact that you have long - term relationships, this is a very unusual thing in the world, and I thought it was fantastic because you build up a trust. Each time you photograph the person, you try to do something else.