Nobody sold prints then and prices didn't mean anything. In terms of earning your living, it was a joke.

No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

You have a lifetime to learn technique. But I can teach you what is more important than technique, how to see; learn that and all you have to do afterwards is press the shutter.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.

A place like Sound City, which was just a big, beautiful room where you would hit record and capture the sound of the performer - a place like that isn't necessarily in demand anymore.

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

At an independent label, you have to figure out inventive ways to promote without spending the money.

Room service? Send up a larger room.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

I'm a man of the marketplace as well as an artist. I'm a pawnbroker of myth.

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.