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 didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

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.

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 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.

Time is thought.

A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Final-offer arbitration should have great appeal for the daring (the risk seekers) who play against the timid (the risk avoiders).

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.