Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light."

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Chic is nothing but the right nothing.