A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.

I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.

We do not see what is “real,” we see what we are.

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.

I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

I'm everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

Now, just a word about the poor Negroes... They're here. They've got to be cared for... The poor Negroes have got to live, too.

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

I think that's one of the great things about the travel. One day I am at home in Sheffield, the next day I'm playing the Hollywood Bowl. It's extraordinary.