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

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

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

Themes recur again and again in my work.