I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

I think the wrong things are kept private

I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.