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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

You always want to come back with an image that's interesting visually, and you hope to get something from the person you photograph that's different than other images you know of these people.

I really knew when I started photographing I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.

The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.