Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.