The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.

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

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

Nobody ever listened to me until they didn't know who I was