East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography.

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

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

The moment you can learn to deal with homosexuality in art, it's quite an exciting moment, just as in a sense when people 'come out' it's quite an exciting moment. It means they become aware of their desires, and can deal with them in a remarkably honest way.