My kickboxing coach Maurice Smith is one of the best ever.

I was raised by the state of California, and then various families and mentors.

Every time you get hit in the head, time slows down just a bit.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

I came to a realization in 1999 of how important striking was going to become in this sport because it's the most efficient way to finish a fight.

What mixed martial arts is being marketed as is not the truth. We're not a bunch of idiots in a cage drinking beer all the time. It's a lifestyle, but it's a positive lifestyle.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.