I'm always learning. I can't imagine doing anything else.

You need to have your eyes open because it's really scary what's happening.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.

I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.

We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense - is one of the few spaces where we're allowed to look and think without an immediate response or reaction.

Photographers talk about their shoot ratio. Like four to one, six to one, ten to one! Whatever, I'm, like, seven billion to one. It is just ridiculous. But sometimes if you can hit it just right and get everything out of the way, something will resonate on multiple levels.