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

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

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

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

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.

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

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.