As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.

I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.

I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.

I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.

I'm really into California art from the '60s.