A camera gives you a purpose.
A lot of my close friends have committed suicide or died of heroin overdoses.
I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.
Growing up, my room was covered in posters. I was like, "I want to make posters."
The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.
My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.