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I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

It was at a big swap meet that I discovered you could buy other people's old discarded family photos and vacation pictures for pretty cheap - a quarter, 50 cents, five bucks for a really nice one.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

I like to know where the camera is.

I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.