It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.

I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.

I was obsessed from the moment I took my first photograph. I wanted to make photography my career.

When I worked as a music and fashion photographer, I always had the nagging feeling that there was something missing, that I wasn't using my skills productively. I gave up photography -- I walked away from it completely -- and started doing care work.

I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, I am not f -- - g dying in Afghanistan. People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.

I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.

I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

For me, documentary photography has always come with great responsibility. Not just to tell the story honestly and with empathy, but also to make sure the right people hear it. When you photograph somebody who is in pain or discomfort, they trust you to make sure the images will act as their advocate.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait -- it's given.

When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.

I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave -- childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.

Everyone in a band has a big ego -- they love having pictures taken.

For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.

If you focus on the things you can't do, you'll destroy yourself. Just remember everything you can do.

I don't see myself as being injured by a landmine or the Taliban; I was injured by ignorance and hatred. When people do these things, they want to create more hatred. Fight it with love and education.

I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

For those looking at me, meeting me for the first time, it is the body they see. I am labelled as disabled.