When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.

By making pictures, you learn the many different properties of photography. I use those properties differently than, say, an advertising agency would, but we're both operating in the same reality. A face painted by Picasso occupies the same reality as a portrait by Stieglitz.

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.