I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

All I'm doing is photographing. When I was working on The Animals, I was working on a lot of other things too. I kept going to the zoo because things were going on in certain pictures. It wasn't a project.

Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

All things are photographable.

Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.