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

I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

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