Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has come utterly to depend upon it.