I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.

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.

The purpose of life is to be purposeful.

Sacrifice isn't supposed to be easy ... but it should come that way.

He gives twice who gives quickly.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

I guess you wouldn't dare to dream that you would get to the end of five years.

Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

I learned the hula, so now I know how to shake my booty Hawaiian style.

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.