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

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.

As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.

Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.

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

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

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