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.

I had in mind a long career.

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.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

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

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