I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

To him who looks at the world rationally the world looks rationally back.

Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.