Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Each book first begins with a little idea.
I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.
But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
In the absence of a subject with which you are passionately involved, and without the excitement that drives you to grasp it and exhaust it, you may take some beautiful pictures, but not a photographic oeuvre.
We all have a sense of level. It may not be based on class exactly anymore, but we still have a sense of what we're entitled to. People pick partners who are nearly their equal in looks. The pretty marry the pretty, the ugly the ugly. To the detriment of the breed.
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
I force myself to care about the music end by wrestling with it for years.