Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography it's pretty much trivialized.

My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.

I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that's what I do, that I'm a scream queen. I'd like to stay away from that.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

Man, meeting Michael Jordan for me was like.. black Jesus walking towards me. It was overwhelming to me to finally meet the guy I've looked up to my whole life.

The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie.

I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.