I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
The Puerto Rican doctor, who wrote all his prescriptions with spray paint. Never got a dinner!
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.
Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
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.
There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.
The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.
Shepard Fairey, the street artist responsible for President Obama's 'Hope' poster, is now facing vandalism charges in Detroit. It's pretty serious. Detroit officials say the artist's spray paint caused over $9,000 worth of improvements.
I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.
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.
I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
I was brought up in south London and I started out in the world of graffiti when I was about 14 because I wanted to be part of that hooded tracksuit gang thing.
The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
