I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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 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.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.