Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

About shadows: do we see shadows? Loads of people don't. A camera will notice a shadow, but how many people have got a shadow in front of them when they take a picture and don't notice it, and then they see it in the photograph because the photograph will catch the shadow.

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

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

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.

Tragedy is a literary concept.

I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.