I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.