I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

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.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the UK and abroad.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

Taking photos is a form of collecting.