They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

If a culture is good or evil, it is only because of its carriers.

It's still romantic falling inlove for someone for who she is and what she says and what she believes in.

What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

Maybe it's not as important to you as it was for me, but that's not for you to decide.

Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.