There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

I'm known for taking pictures very close, and the older I get, the closer I get.

I love the people I photograph. I mean, they're my friends. I've never met most of them or I don't know them at all, yet through my images I live with them.

If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph

I'm photographing myself out there. Not myself physically, but mentally. It's my take on the world.

Everything isn't black and white, but for me it might as well be.

I always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis.

Self education is holy mission.

If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body

Silence, like salt, only seems to be weightless. In reality, if one allows time to dampen it, it grows heavy as an anvil.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

But if the feelings are mutual, I open my heart without restriction. I’m not afraid to say 'I love you'.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.