Since I was a kid, I was listening to hip-hop.
I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.
There was no hip-hop before Afrika Bambaataa.
I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.
If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.
Hip-hop is a worldwide culture. We have permeated every urban environment.
Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
Hip-hop, at its best, is disruptive.
Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.
Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine."
I've been through all the bad parts of the streets.
Hip-hop belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's one of the most radical, revolutionary and reactionary music there is.
I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
Often the art in New York is related to the buildings, to grandiose things.
The grumpier you are, the more assholes you meet.
Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.
The best art is on the street.
I'm very into urban chic; it goes with my personality.
When we played Paris, the English punks would come over, and they got to know the French punks. There was some nice scenes in the back alleys.
Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.
Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
People underestimate hip-hop the way they have sometimes underestimated comic books.
