I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.

I am at war with the obvious.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.

We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

Photography just gets us out of the house.

You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.

In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.

I found it hateful, yet I wanted to be part of it.

I love Atlanta. It's a great city with great crews there.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

If I ever had to be on an amusement park ride, I probably wouldn't get on one; I'm not a very adventurous person!

My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.