Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.

I like to photograph democratically.

I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.