I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.

We are in this time of corporations being so greedy and global. Some people want to call it the apocalypse. When I was born it was half the people on the planet. It has doubled in my life time. This is not sustainable for the earth; of course we are going somewhere. So we have to live preciously, we have to live each day with care!

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.

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

Prostitutes go to heaven. It's their clients that go to hell.

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.