I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

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

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

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