My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

I've been one of the image-makers who created this concept of perfection. I've done a thousand magazine covers where I'm celebrating Hollywood, glamorous people. Which is all good. It's all entertainment.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.

You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death.

I was born in Grimsby and always lived around there, but it's died a death because of the loss of the fishing industry.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.