What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture.

Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.

Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.