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

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

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.

People want security in this insecure world.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

I never set out to be a photographer.

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

You adapt to who you're photographing.

I've always tried to do pictures that don't date.

I always go for simplicity.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

My exploits are nothing now to the average person.

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

I've never been anti-women.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

I just thought it was magic that you could stick a bit of paper in some coffee-type liquid and a picture comes out.

My first influence obviously was Picasso.

I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

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.

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 only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

In France they don't think I'm difficult.

I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got that.

I hate men who are in touch with their feminine side.

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.

I'm not political and I don't judge.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

I've had some weird experiences.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I am mad about my wife.

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

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.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

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