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For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.