I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

My biggest advice would be to take the pictures you want to take. Don’t think about the marketplace, what sells or what an editor might say. And don’t think about style. It’s all bullshit and surface stuff. Style happens.

In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.

What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!

The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.