If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.

When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.