I'm not going to hide behind anything.

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.

Politics exists in every organization, We can not deny

By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Marvelous are the innocent.