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

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.

I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that others were taking, but I continued to take pictures.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.