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.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

...if you think of modern art like sex in all its forms - heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, multipartnered, bestial, whatever, with absolutely no holds barred and with everything available and permissible - that would be modern art.

What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

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

I can't hold a camera anymore.