I feel 30. [Publo] Picasso said he always felt 30. Well, I do.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.