For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain

I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

You must be dedicated and diligent to fulfill your dream.

What's with that?” Butters screamed, his voice high and frightened. “Just covering his head with his arms? Didn't he see the lawyer in the movie?

Life is seldom as unendurable as to judge by the facts it logically ought to be.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

My joke, which isn't really a joke, is that there will be one of two tours: the tour for the album that does well, or the tour for the album that stiffs.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.