In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

Music is not take it or leave it

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

all men are the same age.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

I know that. What's your point?