I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

With all my heart, I’m willing to try a start

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

Young people are this country [America], and we need to speak out.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

Being positive won’t guarantee you’ll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won’t.

To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

If the sins of the flesh ever got old I didn't ever want enough years on me to know it.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

I said in 2008 the media is dead in America. Journalism's dead.