Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

If you want to be a creative person, then you’re gonna have to be creative in how you put your career together. There isn’t a path. Part of the creativity is making your path.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

The people that I photographed allowed me to photograph them because they didn't want to be alone, and the truth is I didn't want to be alone making the pictures.

I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

For me, photography is as much about the way I respond to the subject as it is about the subject itself.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

It's the kind of game that makes you go home and beat your wife.

You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

When people talk about gender-benders and bracket me with George, I always think I'm not like that. I had more of a rock edge, mixed with the 80s electro.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.