I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

If I want something I do everything to get it.

My favorite color is green.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

There's more than what the eye can see, the heart can love, and the brain can understand.

The thing about the black market is, it’s racist. White children make useful slaves, too.

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

Be prepared. *smacks chest*

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.