You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

It's difficult to talk about colour, even remember colour actually.

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.