At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.
I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn.
Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.