Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly

Find what brings you joy and go there.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.

To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

I believe that the Source from which we come is alive in us as our breath, and as we speak and sing and breathe, we release the beauty of the Creator into the world.

Remember, we are creating the lives we're about to enter into.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

...when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...

No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.

Tidal waves surge forward, And in their wake, Stale water is replenished.(Haiku from Chapter Thirty, SHADOWWATER)

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast.

Time discovered truth.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

True happiness for me is playing a concert in Blink-182, and then hanging out with my friends and my wife and son, and going out for Mexican food.

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Donald Trump does not take criticism well, nor does he appreciate reporting on his life.