[Me book is] called Stock Photographs. It was done at the Fort Worth livestock show and rodeo. I was commissioned to shoot there by the Fort Worth Art Museum for a show. I probably shot a total of fourteen days, give or take.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

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.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

When the woman is attractive, is it an interesting picture, or is it the woman? I had a lot of headaches with that, which was why it was interesting. I don't think I always got it straight.

I've goofed, and there's been something interesting, but I haven't made use of it. It just doesn't interest me.

Two people could look at the same flowers and feel differently about them. Why not? I'm not making ads. I couldn't care less.