I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.

I have no interest in being famous. I just want to make famous photographs.

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

I am not God. But I can only do my role here on this planet. The role I feel I was given since I was a kid was to be making art and I only wanted to give and I never let money be my God.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

The matriarchal society 1300 years ago in Egypt was a peaceful society; that's where you had no war for thousands of years! When they switched to patriarchal society, when the male energy ruled, we became obsessed with the greed. Now we are in this time of intense greed!