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

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.

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

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

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.

I came to photography by accident.