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 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 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.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold And shut up green and open into gold.

I don't give a damn for anybody's opinion, I only care about the facts. So I'm not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where factual matters are concerned.

And honey no matter how bad it hurts, never forget that something about you made him once fall in love. Don't lose that.

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.

It's not a character flaw to become an adult.

We go after unlawful activities.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.