I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

If you want reality take the bus.

People say photographs don't lie, mine do.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

I wanted it to provide an escape route, I wanted to make pictures that were fantastic and took you into another world, one that was brighter. I started off with this idea.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

The lack of limitless positive imagination has undoubtedly led many people with great potential to settle for a mediocre state of living.

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.

I love hanging out with friends and family.

Degrees do not matter... one does not bargain about inches of evil.

I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

If you go to a higher place of power, you can gain power there and you might even encounter some beings of knowledge and light that might aid you in some way.

The editing process is a necessary evil. I can write until the cows come home but it is all garbage until it gets edited.

To play someone I loved in my favourite fairytale as a kid is a total honour.

When I look at myself in the mirror, I don't see the bad guy.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.