"It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres."

"The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading."

"The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. They said digital would kill photography because everyone can do it, but they said that about the box brownie in 1885 when it came out. It makes photography interesting because everyone thinks they can take a picture."

"I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses."

"When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my color. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my color."

"The days of an open mic night when I'd rock up in an old jumper are over."

"I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other."

"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."