If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

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

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.