I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.

I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

The viewer is more likely to project their own narrative onto the picture.

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

Never be more scared of the enemy than you think he is of you.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

I think I have a natural, if I can say that, got a kind of natural ability in comedy.

The best way to get over a dog's death is to get another soon.

There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.