Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

People say don't stare. Through the photos, not only do I stare, but I allow viewers to stare at the subject, to see things that they cannot see with a casual glance.

Black people have been killed for directing their gaze at the wrong person. I want my subjects to reclaim their right to look, to see, to be seen.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

God is a consuming fire.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

I put myself in the category of "Lucky Guy," and my hopes for the future are that I can continue to push the envelope for myself, and creatively and see what's next.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

As for "Don't be evil," we have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good-always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, "Don't be evil" seems the easiest way to summarize it.

Michael Jackson was a joker to his core. He loved a good joke especially if it's displayed on somebody else.

The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me

One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.