I can't hold a camera anymore.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't light anything. I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn't have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me and £5 worth of film in my pocket or maybe it was only £2 in those days.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.