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.

The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.

I really loved music and went to a lot of clubs to see bands and dance. I loved going out.

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!

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 think making things that appear simple is incredibly hard.