New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie. New York City has been taken away from you. So my advice is: Find a new city.

My introduction to photography and a lot of how I developed aesthetically was through '50s and early-'60s fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.

Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

I'm estranged from social media and I don't really deal with it. I tried to work on a website and it took up all my time. People wanted me to have a Twitter account and I spent the whole day figuring out what would be the first message. I still haven't wrapped my head around it.

I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer and I love rock 'n' roll.

I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.