I think I came alive when I started photography.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

It takes me a long time to change. I don't think you can just go out and figure out a bunch of visual ideas and photograph. The change happens in living and not through thinking.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

You only do exercises in art school. That's not the real thing. A little bit tells you so much. You have to find your own self. And you don't know what you are! But that's what you have to search for.

I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.