There's A Kind Of Power Thing About

For Me, The Subject Of The Picture Is Always More Important Than The Picture.

Everybody Has That Thing Where They Need To Look One Way But They Come Out Looking Another Way And That's What People Observe. You See Someone On The Street And Essentially What You Notice About Them Is The Flaw. It's Just Extraordinary That We Should Have Been Given These Peculiarities. Something Is Ironic In The World And It Has To Do With The Fact That What You Intend Never Comes Out Like You Intend It.

We've All Got An Identity. You Can't Avoid It. It's What's Left When You Take Everything Else Away.

Freaks Was A Thing I Photographed A Lot. It Was One Of The First Things I Photographed And It Had A Terrific Kind Of Excitement For Me. I Just Used To Adore Them. I Still Do Adore Some Of Them. I Don't Quite Mean They're My Best Friends But They Made Me Feel A Mixture Of Shame And Awe.

I Used To Have This Notion When I Was A Kid That The Minute You Said Anything, It Was No Longer True. Of Course It Would Have Driven Me Crazy Very Rapidly If I Hadn't Dropped It, But There's Something Similar In What I'm Trying To Say. That Once It's Been Done, You Want To Go Someplace Else. There's Just Some Sense Of Straining.