I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

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

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

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.