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

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

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

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

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

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.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.