You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

I came to photography by accident.

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

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

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

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.

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.