The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.

I get to swim in the ocean every single day, which is a very, very important thing to do to stay connected.

I hate having my photograph taken and I try to keep that in mind when I'm photographing other people. But the best photos that I've taken are the ones when people have forgotten that I'm there. If I'm in a recording studio with a musician, for example, maybe I'm not photographing them in the middle of a take but I can just get that stolen moment of them resting and they glance over to me.

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.