I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

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 don't feel very optimistic in London.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

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.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.