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

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.

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

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

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

My favorite color is green.

I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.