I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run ….

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends..

There are ways of angling the camera. I don't just use a tripod. The only time I did that was in '88 when I first came out of detox, I spent every da….

I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having….

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the pl….

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex..

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to….

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory..

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them..

If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what..

I think the wrong things are kept private.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures..

Yes, I need to be fed but the need to be loved by friends has been as important to me than any lover I've had all my life. This is part of the reason….

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost..

I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better..

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed..

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to s….

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the….

The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that….

You know it's said that you make your own face. So you don't really have a face until you are 30 or your mid-20s. When you are starting to grow up an….

My work has been about making a record of my life that no one can revise. I photograph myself in times of trouble or change in order to find the grou….