I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.