I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.

I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

My favorite color is green.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.