There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

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.

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

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.