I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.

The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show a side that we don't see.

When you look at my photos, just look into the eyes of my subjects. The eyes say so much.

The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.

Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course of my life.

I place myself in situations where a lot of people are going to be, and bring a particular body of work that reflects the people already there. You have to study your subject.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.

Chocolate cake and a diamond ring? In bed with the man of my dreams?

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.

Write bylaws in a simple language—no one needs an advanced degree to understand them.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.