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

I just remember how excited I was to have a boyfriend and be in love and to document it.

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

I went through a pretty big David Bowie period when I was younger, and that has affected me profoundly in my life and my work.

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

A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists is really slim."

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.