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

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

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.

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

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.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.