I think "punk" should really be defined as paving your own way creatively and by defying any sort of orthodoxy or commercial pressure.

Just because you've reached a certain level of success, that doesn't mean you've become corrupted by the system.

I've never really considered myself just a street artist. I consider myself a populist.

I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.

I don't agree with most forms of censorship, and I especially don't agree with the idea that one needs to be from the same cultural, ethnic, or religious background as the subjects they portray in order to be qualified to portray those subjects. I believe that compassion and empathy should cross all of those category barriers, and the conversations art creates can be inflammatory initially, but I think are most often constructive and healing in the long run.

I said, ok, I'll pay the licensing fee it. And [the AP] said, no, we want to claim damages. I said damages? Because of my poster the Mannie Garcia picture is now worth more than it ever would have been.

The great thing about the Internet is, it has made it easier for people who are clever and resourceful to promote themselves.