New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
The hip-hop community is made up of a lot of hustlers. Everybody is trying to get theirs, and everybody is trying to eat.
There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers.
Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.
I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.
Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.
The hustlers on the corner were my role models.
There are two kinds of writers: hustlers and sanctimonious hustlers.
There is a sort of an unwritten code in Washington, among the underworld and the hustlers and these other guys that I am their friend.
I created this character that I still have of a guy who is a little bit of a nincompoop - I'm poking fun at street hustlers. I didn't quite make as much money as one would gambling, but it was a lot safer.
