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I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

You get a lot of people requesting photographs but I tend to keep myself to myself, pull my cap down.

It's crazy because I have a scar on my right eyebrow, but people who don't know me very well think that I just intentionally shave that part of it.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?