Education brightens a darkened world.
I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne, because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and 'street'. She embodies everything. And beauty — great beauty.
When people are described as difficult and have a reputation as difficult it's 99% of the time because they've been disappointed over and over again by people who don't really know what to do for them, and I know I'm going to make them happy and I can't wait to work with them.
I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.
My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.
I can't tell you how many reshoots I've done from, you know, famous photographers who really love just to shoot models and failed at shooting a Patti Labelle or someone like that because Patti Labelle didn't turn them on, so you have to shoot what you care about.
I think that people have to just go with their gut and follow their passion if they're photographers.
Comedy can simultaneously allow you to dive headfirst into the world's pain and escape it.
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!
I think you want to show a level of transparency that breeds trust. You don't want to show a level of desperation that breeds concern.
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.