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I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

I am just pitifully nostalgic. I can't help but roll my eyes at myself frequently. I mean, I still shoot black-and-white film. And I am constantly reminiscing about the 'good old days.' I'm 28 years old. There haven't even been that many 'good old days.' But still, I love to look back.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.