"What was the happiest moment of your life?""The first time I...

"What was the happiest moment of your life?"

"The first time I showed my photographs in a gallery. I was in my late twenties. Back in those days, you could still walk into the SoHo galleries and make a pitch. So I spent an entire afternoon carrying around my slides, going from gallery to gallery, but all of them blew me off. Then at the tenth gallery, they told me they didn’t have time to speak to me. I was so exhausted, I said: ‘Oh yes you do have the time!’ And I ended up walking out with my own show. I remember walking down the street afterwards. I kept singing Linda Ronstadt’s ‘It’s So Easy.’"