You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.