As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

It's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary...it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.