You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.