I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

Gena Rowlands is fabulous.

My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.

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.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.

Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.