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Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.

I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.

I didn't start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn't know who Jean Michel was, but I knew his work.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

I'd call my work 'instinctual design.' I like to find the spirit of a piece that defies time, age, and occasion. My clothes give the wearer the chance to develop their own voice within a wardrobe, and I think of them as curators of their personal style.

For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.

My ideas come, wh-pheww. And I draw. Just recently, when I'm searching for ideas for paintings and sculptures, I wait for ideas, and it's always visual.