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

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.

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

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

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

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.