I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

I was raised to face any challenge.

Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

The biggest fool may come out with a bit of sense when you least expect it.

I am an expert in the world of the supremely happy because I am happy. I've never met anybody as happy as I am - that, in itself, should make you unhappy.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?

And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way.

The arts, it has been said, cannot change the world, but they may change human beings who might change the world.