Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

I was voted most artistic in school.

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.

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

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

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