From 8 to 19, I was skateboarding every single day. That was my life. I worked at a skate shop. I watched skate videos.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

I don't really care about how I look.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

No alarm clock needed. My passion wakes me up.. !

Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what this is about."

You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.