I flew down to Miami on a “red-eye”, rented a car, drove to three and a half hours to Key West, found a motel with barely enough time to sleep before the early morning session at Jimmy’s home for Andy Warhol’s, Interview Magazine. I was so tired that my mind was moving slower than my body as I vamped through some standard pictures, until Jimmy rolled us a joint. Inspired, I remembered the picture I came to make. Jimmy responded by going back in the house, finding his parrot glasses, “Andy’s going to love these,” he laughed, ordered a cheeseburger from Louie’s Backyard next door, and we set up this picture.

‘Cheeseburger In Paradise’ was the first song I heard by Jimmy Buffett in 1978, working at Anchor Records in London, so when I got this assignment from Interview Magazine, I had the picture in my mind, Jimmy and I came up with this.