I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

My mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later. So when I was born, my oldest brother was 18. And my youngest brother was 11. By the time I was 7 or 8, everyone had moved out. I went from being with ten people all the time to being an only child. It really freaked me out.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.