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

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

Many people decorate their homes with designer graffiti, even though most of them would probably have real graffiti scoured off the walls of their buildings.

Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

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

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

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

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

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.