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 was voted most artistic in school.

I couldn't wait to come to New York to reinvent myself.

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

I think a lot about control nowadays, and I really want to let go and just be more in the moment.

Actually, I didn't study photography at first. I went to school for painting my first year, poetry my second year, graphic design my third and fourth year, and photography my fifth.