Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness to receive.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.

Every present anger derives from past weakness.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

You can pretend anything and master it.

I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.

One should perform even an insignificant task with respect.