When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

...even the goddess Persephone is happy, if only for half each year.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

If you want to explore, go do it. If you want to try different types of art, do it.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.