Street Artist Quotes

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.

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.

It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.

I'm a complete and utter busker.

I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

I was a street performer for two years.

Once you been performing on the streets you can conquer any venue.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Street art belongs on the street. But I'm a working street artist and I earn my money selling art in the style of street art via galleries.

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.