I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.

I think the wrong things are kept private

I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.

In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.