In France they don't think I'm difficult.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Happiness is not being pained in body nor troubled in mind.

Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar.

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.

If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.

Talking is what I do, but listening is my job.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.