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

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.

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.

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

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

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