The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Themes recur again and again in my work.

I came to photography by accident.

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

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

You should never reveal your true age.

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.