I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.

I didn't have to be friends with people who were into pop music.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.

I was never told, "Fags are going to hell." You just didn't talk about it.

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.

I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

A camera gives you a purpose.