I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.

Use your wisdom and life’s lessons to take you higher. Give yourself no other choices but to move forward and to succeed.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

Beauty is the expression of the hearts truth.

Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.

I've been happy with my life. Also very lucky. I lead two lives - businessman and racer - and it feels like the best of both worlds.

Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

To have the universe bear one company would be a great consolation in death.