The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that’s what I was doing, but it wasn’t.

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

As I get older, the book projects are – liberating is one word, but they really are me.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.