When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

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.

Street skating, which is what I grew up with, is completely free of rules. You can do anything. When I see a skater go by, I think, What is this person going to do here? It's the same with people who write, who make music, who draw, who make movies. Creative people tend to have all of those different avenues in them.

I was a fan of Andy's since I was a small kid. I recall seeing an ad of famous people on an airplane together. It was caricature drawing. There was Muhammad Ali, there was Miles Davis, and there was Andy Warhol. I had a fascination with him since I was little.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.