In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.

I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.

It's good to be around people who see [photography] as a reasonable enterprise when everyone in the neighborhood may think it's ridiculous. (On the benefit of teaching photography)

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

I guess I'm a workaholic!

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders

Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Bikey. Yes, that's got a nice ring to it.

Stop being yourself and become who u always wanted to be