"I want to be remembered as someone who tried to make a difference."

"The most beautiful thing is to be alive."

"I think that the best art is the art that is not in a museum."

"You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

"My work was starting to be seen in the subway, and people were starting to recognize it. And that's when I started to feel like I was really doing something."