The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves?

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

Slavery can never be abolished.

I demand more from myself than anybody could ever expect.

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

Moral nihilism comes with a price we can now see.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.