The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.

To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.

Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty

Being pregnant was the healthiest I've ever been in my life. Except for the cupcakes.

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.

Everyone wants to be truth tellers today while never thinking we are the ones who need the truth told to us. It's quite amusing.