By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

I don't have lights, I don't have assistants, I just go and meet somebody and take a photograph. That's really basic, and that's how I used to work when I was 17 or 18 in Holland.

Failure does not connote that you achieved nothing. It denotes that you are on an adventure towards finding what will eventually advance you to the realization of your goals.

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.