I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.