It's like a visual connection between the girl I'm shooting and me, a bunch of triggers. A lot of girls I'll just shoot once or twice, but with certain special ones I'll go a bit further.

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.