Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.

If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible to all people at the same level.

Our best pictures happen by grace.

I would never censor something to please someone. I don't play games.

I love feeling that I am opening new worlds for people who don't have time to investigate these things themselves.

Find the one thing you’re good at and FOCUS on it.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

I never chased after any particular school, never really had mentors; I really just did the work that was true to me.

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

When facing the world always remember stand tall back straight chin up and always put a smile on your face

Do you come here often?"..."Often enough, but I've never sat across from such a beautiful woman before.

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

The first draft of anything is sh*t.

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast

We must invest in tomorrow. And pay our teachers for teaching as we pay our coaches for coaching.

Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.