I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

Great men have the nature of a child.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.

I try to give my kids everything I never had.