As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

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

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

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

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.

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.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?