I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

Friends have ways of speaking without words.

We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

I don't have one regret.

Music is a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Being recognized by Hollywood is a dream true; it's really an amazing moment.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress

If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.