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I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

I chose photography over writing. I had to make a living.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I've been working with photography for many years.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.