In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.

• I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
• If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
• Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.
• A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
• The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
• I left school on my 15th birthday.
• I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
• A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
• The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.
• 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.