Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

I met an Englishwoman in Africa. She said she became a doctor because she saw one of my pictures. That’s all I want – just one doctor in Africa.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

I am a professed atheist, until I find myself in serious circumstances. Then I quickly fall on my knees, in my mind if not literally, and I say : 'Please God, save me from this.'

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives.

If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

One who explores and knows all aspects of his life, is called self-realized.

Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.