I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.

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

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.

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.

People will get tired of overly retouched images soon and they'll want something different. If people have too much reality, they want fantasy. What matters most is what the image communicates. I remember the first roll of film I shot at high school, the contact sheet went from these really worthy images of cracks in the wall and ended up with all of my dancer friends naked in Renaissance poses.

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