I know it's simple, but my main inspiration is just my love of music. I know that sounds overly naive. But it's true.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

I think there are two types of photographers, those who want to document the world and those who want to create their own world. I am more interested in documenting the world and presenting it to people with the question attached, 'Does this make any sense to you?'

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

There are a lot of great animal rights organizations who save dogs and save cats, but the Humane Society is actually really good at working with Congress and getting legislation actually passed.

There's something about the human brain, that it actually has a predilection towards negativity, which served us really well when we lived in an environment that was very threatening.