I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

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

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

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

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

Photography just gets us out of the house.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I have never stopped playing music.

How is it appropriate for a judge ever to say that they will choose to see some facts and not others?

From a moral point of view, there is no excuse for terrorist acts, regardless of the motive or the situation under which they are carried out.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow