I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.

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.

If we could follow the slogan that says, "Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Grammar is politics by other means.

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

This is important. Money on its most basic level is a hard fact - you either have it or you don't. But on it's emotional level it is purely a fiction. It becomes what you let it become.

All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!