“In the future, everybody will be anonymous for 15 minutes.”

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.

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.

I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.

I can never be anonymous – especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

I think everybody really responds to the secret society aspect. This idea that you have to remain anonymous, and yet at the same time, you’re kind of saving the world.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.