People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.

- Mick Rock

The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of…

- Mick Rock

I don't show every picture that I have, I think discretion is also important.

- Mick Rock

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

- Mick Rock

It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

- Mick Rock

Every morning I stand on my head and do a yoga workout.

- Mick Rock