If I had seven lives, I'd be a photographer in every one.

Photography means releasing oneself from one type of gravity and placing oneself in a space where a different force is trying to move you.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.

Remember the Creator in the days of your youth.

My only experience with dances was what I had seen on TV, but it really wasn’t that far off. The theme appeared to be “Crepe Paper in the Gymnasium,” and they had mastered it perfectly.

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -

Fans of these freshmen is about to get iffy while this youngin that you doubted is about to get busy.

I don't believe in villains - just people who channel their energy in the wrong way.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke