In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

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

I left school on my 15th birthday.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.