People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.