The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

As an artist, motive means opportunity

I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

I'm playing somebody who is a recovering drug addict who got out of prison. It takes place in 2 weeks-the 1st 2 weeks I'm out of prison.

Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

I love to cook for my husband and daughter. I enjoy going to the market for fresh vegetables.