“I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photogr...” — Annie Leibovitz Quote

“I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.”

“The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!”

“It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.”

“My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living.”

“I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.”

“There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.”

“I think I'll always be homesick. Even though Orlando is amazing and the sun's always out, I'll always miss Birmingham. I don't know what it is.”

“With the national team I had to go to Newcastle, Wales, I knew a little about England, but Wolves and Birmingham I did not know anything.”

“I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.”

“This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.”

“I grew up in a small holding in Staffordshire near Tamworth, and we had a few ponies and chickens, ducks and dogs and my mum used to do horse-riding lessons, but we moved to Birmingham when I was 13.”

“Some time after my dad came to live to London - when I was eight or nine - he sent for me, my mum and my little brother Fabian. He then brought all three of us to Birmingham and we lived in Aston for about three years, went to Aston Manor school, then moved to Erdington. That's where I grew up, became a teenager.”