Yes, there's a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it's got real value.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

I think the most interesting stuff comes from people who've just got nothing to lose. You know, let's kamikaze this thing - just throw themselves in it, devil may care.

I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.