As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

If you want reality take the bus.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

Only the victor gets to write history

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.