Instead of painting graffiti that emulated signs, I started painting signs that emulated graffiti.

It's unfortunate that it usually takes a near death experience to make us realize how valuable our time really is.

[Your time] is more valuable than money. It's something you can never get back.

If you really want to start a business or grow a project or fail less, it's important to recognize how valuable your time is.

You have to have confidence in yourself and your own ability, before you're willing to help another.

I've failed a lot in my life. I've failed with haircuts, I've failed with businesses.

Growing up, I would always see my parents come home from their 9 to 5 jobs and it was never 9 to 5.. The lack of being around my parents really inspired me to be an entrepreneur, to work around my friends and family and make more time for the things that make me happy.

I'll tell you what is interesting: When you stand on the other side of the fence and you have to actually sell your thing and actually put your product out in the market. Guess what? Your logo will be bigger.

I think the power of design is taking something that's very ordinary and making it extraordinary.

A lot of people think, "Let's go to New York, let's go to somewhere else, because is bigger, is better, is better than here." Well, no, make it happen HERE.

I think you need to stop and look at your life because you have a rich history. You are a tapestry, you are fabric, like every stitch. You can put an extra stitch into that fabric and all this is part of that.

I don't think deadlines are real. I think they're imposed on us. I think it's bad time management.

I argue in the mainstream media, (prisons) are fetishized and prisoners are largely cast as the other. I want to convince people that prisoners are us and the prisons are ours. Prisoners are a part of our society. And so it is incumbent on us to care about how they function, and to analyze and keep check if they’re doing things well.

Imagine if eggs were brown. I don't care if they taste good or not, but if you saw some gelatenous brown stuff with a green yolk, you'd go "Well, I don't know.."

I think colors unite us like red roses unite us.

Gray is the most supreme color in existence.

That desire to learn is really the only thing that you should have picked up in college.

It is so much more rewarding to understand than to feel right, even if that means changing your mind about a subject, an ideology, a person and even yourself.

Nature rewards total commitment.

Treat everything like it's your first project.

This is important. Always remember, everyone of us—each of us is unique. We have something to give. We may not know what it is right now, but we have something to bring to the table.

The more creative you are, the more trouble you're in.

The world has probably always been in perpetual crisis—now it has come to a breaking point

Eclecticism is a natural cross-breading between people. That is what crossover is.

Eclecticism is what we're talking about at Crossover. It's the mixing of different styles because people communicate with one another.