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

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

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.

I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.

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.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

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 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.

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.