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

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

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

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.