When you go out skating with your friends, you need one friend who knows how to take a good picture. Without the picture, there is no proof that you pulled the trick.

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

I want to use whatever connections to get a super-outstanding Basquiat in the White House. It could be one of mine. It could be something that a friend owns.

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

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

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.