When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth