When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

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.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.