I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals..

When I moved to New York, I was still in the closet..

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature..

I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself..

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't ha….

I was never raised with anybody telling me that gay was bad..

A camera gives you a purpose..

In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd mak….

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it..

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules.….

I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it..

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship..

All I do is make photos. It's my life..

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist..

There was no luxury. I never got on an airplane until I was 18. We drove everywhere. My dad was like, "Waste not, want not.".

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your fac….

Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters.".

Whatever emotions you're going through, you somehow seek out the people that are going through similar emotions or that maybe have something you need..

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line..

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image..

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager..