There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

Lots of folks know stuff we don't, but that doesn't make 'em smart.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

Be not sick too late, nor well too soon

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I grew up on the beaches, and I always found it kind of funny that it's considered decent if you cover three tiny spots with pieces of fabric.

I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious, and happy.

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

There were many times when I kept silent about being Jewish as I got older, when Jewish jokes were told.