There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

Traveling to Europe and traveling in the U.S.A. was a much different experience. 'On the Road' exemplified everything glamorous that was happening on this side of the planet. The book puts off some kind of sweet melody - part hope for the world, part nostalgic.