I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

It's a choice - there are two different sorts of photographer: those obsessed with the technicalities and those obsessed by the subject.

No! Beauty is emotional! That's why plastic surgery never works. Women who want to change their nose, lips, they don't understand that they are doing nothing except erasing their magic.

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

The more I photograph women, the less it is about transformation. Women are beautiful. All that really matters is enhancing that.

Some things happen by accident - embrace them.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity.

Work is your life, it’s not a rehearsal. You work 7 days a week so you may as well enjoy those days.

One day you will be nostalgic for today.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.

What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?

Without music, we wouldn't have an Army.