I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

The cruelty, war and violence, this is evil, wrong and dark and that's what we should hide from the children, not a human body!

Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

The tools I learned photographing celebrities, now I want to use them to sell ideas.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.