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

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 am at war with the obvious.

I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.

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.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.