I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Be kind whenever, you can.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

My food demons are Chinese food, sugar, butter.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

find your eternity in each moment

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.