I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.

I could see the works just living in reproductions. The work lives on like fantasy. Some live even better as just an image.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

You basically only discover a new thing once.

Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here.

Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has nothing to do with the fantasy image that goes along with it. You have so many people complaining, "It's not how it used to be." If you look for specific things and you don't find them anymore, that's disappointing. But that's just your disappointment, it has nothing to do with the city. I think it's a nice place-harsh at times, and so on, but beautiful nonetheless.

I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.