“My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I ...” — Juergen Teller Quote

My father never really encouraged me or even took an interest after I walked away from the family business. No one did except my mother and my grandfather. To be truthful, I cannot remember one meaningful conversation I had with my father.

I would never ask somebody to do something where I felt that it's not right or it puts someone in an uncomfortable position.

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

Back in 2000, I didn't have a mobile phone.

I'm often in Venice in November and December, when it's foggy and wintry, and the decorations in the shops and the lights in the churches make the place feel both Christmassy and melancholic.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.

I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Sound health policy is about so much more than the mechanics of insurance. Let's stop letting 'Medicare-for-all' dominate the conversation.