If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows in how I arrange things. It's always little altars.

I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

I like to look at pictures, all kinds. And all those things you absorb come out subconsciously one way or another. You'll be taking photographs and suddenly know that you have resources from having looked at a lot of them before. There is no way you can avoid this. But this kind of subconscious influence is good, and it certainly can work for one. In fact, the more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.

Happiness? No, it's not there for me.

I can't have just anybody assisting me, I need somebody who I can really communicate with.