I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

Photography was the only thing that mattered in my life and I gave it everything.

I don’t crop my images and I always shoot handheld. By doing that I build in a kind of imperfection and this helps to emphasize reality.

I work using the Brian Eno school of thinking: limit your tools, focus on one thing and just make it work… You become very inventive with the restrictions you give yourself.

My biggest fear always is that I’ll photograph an idea rather than a person, so I try to be quite sensitive to how people are.

By self-analysis you can not change your character, but you may change your mentality.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

With photography, you are lucky if you get people to look at your pictures at some point. There's no formal way to show them.

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of things dialogue can also say.

Learn more and Know more.

Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.

I am a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and believe that law-abiding Americans have the right to self-defense.

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

I was a hangover of that era where they’d say “Take off that medal! Is that a St. Christopher medal? You’re going to lose your audience with that.”

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

We lost because we didn't win.

I dragged my wife from our honeymoon in Africa and landed her in Ontario, Canada, when it was -40 degrees.

Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.