Banksy

"People either love me or they hate me, or they don't really care..."

"When I was eighteen I spent one night trying to paint “Late Again..” in big silver bubble letters on the side of a passenger train. British transport police showed up and I got ripped to shreds running away through a thorny bush. I spent over an hour under a dumper truck with engine oil leaking all over me. As I lay there I realised I had to cut my painting time in half of give up altogether. I was staring straight up at the stencilled plate on the bottom of the fuel tank when I realised I could just copy that style and make each letter three feet high."

"I got home at last and crawled into bed next to my girlfriend. I told her I’d had an epiphany that night and she told me to stop taking that drug “cos it’s bad for your heart” 

Banksy