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

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

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

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.

A lot of artists need structure.

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

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.