Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.

If I have a problem, I want to work it out, right now.

To be brave is to love unconditionally without expecting anything in return.

There are certain mystical belief systems that believe that taking pictures takes an aspect of the soul, but beyond that it's just the idea that once you're captured in a photograph, then a million presumptions are made of you, and you are forever frozen in that one moment, and you are perceived to be the embodiment of that moment, and that, of course, is an illusion.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.