In fact, I don’t believe I’m guilty of any crimes, but I’ve always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual, and psychological change, and there’s an erotic aspect to that.

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

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.