Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up. I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

Photography has always reminded me of the second child.. trying to prove itself. The fact that it wasn't really considered an art.. that it was considered a craft.. has trapped almost every serious photographer.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.