War is not something that can be won. Everybody loses at war.
I've learned to listen in all aspects of life, in all relationships and communications. The biggest lesson is to listen.
When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.
I'm not a war photographer. I've always dealt with the consequences of conflict.
It is what it is. I can't change what's happened to me.
I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.