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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.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

I knew I was artistic, and I wanted to do something in the arts.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

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 never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

I've been taking art classes for a couple of years; I love to draw.

I've been taking art lessons since I was little, and I've always drawn. I think in pictures.