I want to be the toughest photographer in the world.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

If you can begin with enthusiasm and confidence, you are half way to success.

If you are smart, you will be attracted towards beautiful.If you are beautiful, well, then, you'll assume you are smart & you will be attracted towards beautiful.

Emotions must not be part of the decision process: decisions must be clinical and well calculated.

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

It is a tremendous sacrifice to run for political office in America today.