I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
The subject [of Los Angeles] became a general metaphor for anxiety and the speed of modern life.
Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'
I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.
When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.
Nothing's changed except the dates on the newspapers. I'm in my same skin thinking the same old thoughts. The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.
Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
He's never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.
A new day will come and when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.