A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

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

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.