My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

And the revelation was a little like what saints receive on mountains - a further chapter in the history of the mystery.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.