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

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

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

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

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.

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.

My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

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.

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.