I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written Just Kids had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.

If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

One of my great goals when I first started taking photographs or showing them publicly is that people might want one for over their desk. That's my goal.