Irving Penn said he didn't want to photograph anyone under 60, and I think there is some truth about it.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

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

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

When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

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