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

"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."

"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."

"Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful."

"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country."

"Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better."

"I want to initiate a change in society in the long term."

"To love truly means recognizing that every challenge is an invitation to grow stronger."