I've never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I've always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

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

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

There are going to be people doing the talking and people who get talked about, choose, which one do you want to be?

I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.

What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t.