There's nothing wrong with provocative art work: I even look forward to the day when I can take pictures which will disturb even me.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Oftentimes we love the thing we hate and vice versa.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Always look deep into your soul for the greatest strength.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

I generally play strong people and scary people.

I think it was Osama bin Laden's [idea to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq].

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Time and again, people transcend the paralyzing effects of psychological pain when they have sufficient contact with someone who can hear them empathically.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

If it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else probably made it.

Sometimes experience trumps assumption.