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

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

I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.

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

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

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.

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