“I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don’t do that so much anymore.”

Keep your coins, I want change.

If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.

I don’t think you should have to pay to look at graffiti. You should only pay if you want to get rid of it.

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn’t matter how great you were, it’ll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Live as a villain, die as a hero

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Stencils are good for two reasons; one – they’re quick; two – they annoy idiots.

Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don’t like to use the word ‘art’ at all.

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can’t even finish my second apple pie.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in – like peace and justice and freedom.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue… A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

I came then to a conviction that has never left me: that there is too much for me to attend to in this mortal life without overspeculation on the immortal, that it is not necessary to my peace of mind or to my effort to be a decent and useful person, to have a definite assurance about the affairs of the next world.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays ’em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera–or war or fiction.

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don’t know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.