There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

I never heard the term "art world" until I was in my thirties, and I was like, "What are you guys talking about?" It's the world, and we all live in the world!

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

What I've always liked about photography is that it's such a direct way of showing what's on my mind. I see something. I show it to you.

I've been taking pictures since I was probably 16. I'm 54, and I can't believe how excited I am.

I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.