It's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

I always say I make pictures rather than take pictures.

I don't work off lights and angles; I work off emotions. A mood that I create.

It's insane, the internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.

I want my photos to be fresh and urgent. A good photograph should be a call to arms.

People go, 'What do you want to do?' What do you want to do? What are you feeling? Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do—that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.