I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.