Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.

One of the interesting things about skateboarding and graffiti is that skateboarding exists in the documentation of an act.

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art.

In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Street culture is punk, hip-hop, skateboarding, surfing, graffiti. It's like a massive global culture that is all tied together. But for so many years it was very geographic.

When skateboarding and punk merged, it really became a large teen subculture.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

The boat from India was a crowded place

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

Maybe if you stopped asking "why" all the time, you might be happy. Leave it alone, you know? Life is happy.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

It's great to arrive, but the trip's most always most of the fun.

How is it that everyone on this train has so much alcohol?" "We always head to Canada at the beginning of the season," she says taking her seat again. "Their laws are much more civilized. Cheers.

Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.