Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.

That's immediately how I gauge how healthy a city is-by the amount of tags. It's just in direct competition with advertising. It's still one of the last things that hasn't been corrupted.

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.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

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

At what point does "one day" become today?

We desperately want to believe in something. To simply live out our lives believing in nothing is to live as if this thing we call life is filled with nothing but nothing.

My mother was in advertising and worked incredibly hard when she was bringing us up. She was a working mother and a working single parent. That instills in you a sense of determination.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin.

My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don't know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.

I dont like talking about any projects till they solidify and take off.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.