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 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.

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.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

If you have one clean hand and one dirty, you do not get two clean hands by rubbing them together.

The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

You’ve lied to me. You’ve hid things from me. How dare you talk to me like we’re still friends, like we ever mattered to you at all?--Sydney Field

Where in the nine hells did you ever find the notion that I would fight fair?”-Drizzt Do'Urden

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces