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

I have some that I have become a well-known-even infamous-client of, mostly in Memphis. But a great deal of that is legend and doesn't have anything to do with truth.

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

I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.