I did long-term re-insurance claims. Asbestos, health hazards, pollution. It was very boring. But I've got quite a mathematical brain and it paid well.
Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.
I have never voted in any election - I usually have more important things to do, especially since I've had kids.
I got a message from Downing Street that my picture's hanging in the White House. Which is weird.
My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.
My friends were stealing cars and shoplifting. I was never into that but I was cheeky. I enjoyed making people laugh.
I remember finding this book, which showed a New York subway train that had been covered in so much graffiti you couldn't recognise it was a train. I thought, ‘I want to do that… how do you do that?'
It's hard to live just by selling paintings.
You just have to be clever about who you work with. Had I done Gap or H&M, there's no way Louis Vuitton would have wanted to work with me. So you hold out for the big ones.
Whenever I get a job that's somewhere around America, I fly over my ex-wife and daughter and hang out with them.
I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.
In certain places around the world, street art is widely accepted and it is part of the urban environment.
When I got into graffiti, it was the most-exciting art form and it changed the course of my life.
You can't be a punk all your life.
I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.
I'm a luxury brand.
A friend of mine back in 1989 did an illegal rave in Vauxhall. He got Keith Haring to come along and tag the side of the wall. My friend cut it out of the wall and he kept it under his bed for 20 years. Then a few years ago he asks me if I want to buy it... so I spent £12,000 on a Keith Haring.
Anyone can lose their home and find their life is turned upside down.
I respect Virgin Atlantic's brave and challenging attitude and the way it goes against the grain, so I jumped at the chance to be part of the first ever Gallery in the Air.
