We needed time to figure out what all of this meant, how we were going to come to terms and redefine what our love was called. I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth.

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.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.

Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy.

Spare the child and spoil the rod, I am not sellin' myself to god.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.