I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

You should never reveal your true age.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Recording sessions were stimulating to photograph, because everything was in motion: the subject, the musicians, the technicians and the photographer. You needed fast reflexes to keep up with moving targets, and sensitivity and skill to get the pictures while keeping out of the performers' eyeline so as not to break their concentration.