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I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I certainly want people to like my writing, but I know that if I write with the intention of trying to please people, the writing will not be good because it will not be authentic. So, ironically, I have to be willing to write something strange or unlovable in order to write anything truly good.

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 try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

I'm not a writer, and I don't want there to be any mistake about that.

For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.

I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.