I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

When the soul is set on fire, great things manifest.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Simply by performing good actions and thinking good thoughts you will not attain enlightenment. It takes something more.

Shake what ya momma gave ya and most of all be sassy

I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.

Growing up in music motivated me. I applied that to my education and it made me a better person.

Progress would be wonderful - if only it would stop.

I am a fangirl of talent, so to see someone slaying the competition doing what I'd love to do, that's inspiring to me.