The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

I am calling it a journey because the beauty of reading is, while you are reading you are in the same phase and the same mood the book is offering for as many days you continue to read.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

It is through others that we become ourselves.

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

In marketing, the familiar is everything.

I hate guns, I think they're the worst thing ever invented.