Photographer

As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

I can't stand the word 'celebrity.' It's such a brash word.

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.