Giving someone their style or bumping up their sense of style to be a better version of what it is, is part of the fun of what I do, and I actually approached Al Sharpton. They didn't come to me.

I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.

I don't photograph anyone if I can't meet with them first because if I don't do that, then they're just going to the dentist and they're filled with fear. They don't know who I am.

My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.

When people warn me about someone - the label head or the publishing head - that somebody is difficult, I'm in heaven.

I think that people get into trouble when they photograph something that they... that is not in their world. It's like when they say "write what you know."

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

I guess I'm half traditionalist, half modern girl and I just never... I love the digital world and I love electronica and after I shoot everything is digital, but I just... I don't know.

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today.

Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.

There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of dramatization and fictionalization. You have to do that to make a good song.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.