Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

I like having that juxtaposition where you can have a very triumphant sounding song and then throw in all this crazy imagery. That's part of the fun of writing, you know?

My faith does not lead me to think the Lord will provide us with roast pig, bread already buttered, etc. He will provide us with the ability to raise the grain.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

It is better to invert reality than to copy it.

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good.