I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I spent all of my money on film. I remember I would do these set-design jobs or transcribe or just anything to get, like, a $100 check and go immediately to Adorama and buy expired film.

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional.

Amy: Pond and her boys . . . my poncho boys. If we're going to die, let's die looking like a peruvian folk band.

Those who earn your trust by surprise will leave surprisingly

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

I think people react so strongly to hearing the human voice, you can't give them too much of it or else they want it all the time.

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

You never compete with the people in your crew; you have your own team. Competition is only with those people whose film is releasing alongside on Friday and never with one's own team.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.