“Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.”

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Today’s art has been cancelled due to police activity.

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead… it all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something… that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

When he time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don’t make any fuss.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish… but that’s only if it’s done properly.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

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.

I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

You should be able to use the pieces you already own and add to them. Because they are like timeless classics.

Sometimes this fellow’s music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it’s bananas.

I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.

It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.