All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.