I would play music every day from the time I was about 4 or 5 years old. Every time I would go from one end of the house to the other, I would pass the piano and play a few notes.

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.

There is no code among men because there are no men anymore. Only monsters who sit behind their desks and give orders.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Your charisma and charm can make your moments more memorable for amazing first impressions.

Successful minds work like a gimlet - to a single point.

You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.

in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

Love is hope without doubt, hate is fear turned out.

The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.