To ask people's permission to take their pictures? Sometimes it feels right to ask, but I will not ask, unless it is essential to do so. If you asked all the time, you would miss everything. With the exception of portraits, it is generally bad news if people are looking at the camera.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch and I do love big screen documentaries.

I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.