I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.

Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

In order to heal oneself, we must learn how to forgive.

I wanna be a legend; I wanna be a cult hero. I do!

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.