I ran a kid down and broke both his legs.
Murderer, murderer!
The police were quite good about it actually, I got a letter of them two weeks later saying that
he was ok, his legs are broken, but he's ok.
I would help you if you were in trouble and I wouldn't be the cause of that trouble unless you started first.
I don't really regret much, you know, I've done bad things, bad things have happened to me. Life's like that.
Yeah, heavy tattooing is a bit like scratching away the surface, and kind of revealing what's really under there.
Somebody's getting tattoo quite like, it does give you an insight into what's going on inside them.
I believe.
I like grabbing hold of someone and marking them forever and they'll remember me forever,
and I like that, I think that's human contact.
It's a big deal marking skin permanently.
I don't take it lightly and at the same time I think is totally unserious as well,
and it should be a bit of a laugh and there should be some kind of element of humor in it.
I know I get the balance right.
I didn't have any tattoos from school, I didn't have any homemade tattoos, none of friends had tattoos.
and there were no tattoo parlors anywhere near us in South London.
Went to Glastonbury one year, I think I was in twenty, twenty-one, I was trying to think about it the other day,
my memory is very bad because of drug taking.
It's one of the big problems about drug taking,
it's one of the biggest disadvantages is you don't remember everything very well.
I remember going and I think we just went totally unprepared, we just drove there in a car, and broke in and
I saw this kid and he must have been about eleven years old and he had a tattoo on his arm.
And it was just a little star, like that.
I couldn't believe that, it was just a mind blowing moment to see this child with a tattoo.
I just thought "Oh, God, that's a child of rebellion, that child is like a symbol of rebellion."
And I thought I'm gonna have a tattoo, I'm gonna have that tattoo.
That age originally stood for heroin which I used to smoke,
and wanted immortalized, but on my mouth
for... for not necessarily the right reasons at that time.
I wanted it to look like how I remember old tattooing looked on old pictures of sailors or
old pictures of criminals and in my mind, though, those tattoos were just black,
but, basically, they were black and white photos of color tattoos.
So I decided that I wasn't gonna have any color, if I think the image, it's very graphic and it's monochrome.
I like just the black ink in the skin, it's not really black, it's this funny bluish stuff.
It's Indian ink, which is, basically, carbon, which is what we're made of, and
I find it fascinating that it can stain the skin the way it does, permanently.
And I like the way it changes over time, as well, the fact that it's kind of dating itself that it's spreading slightly.
And blurring slightly.
I've always looked forward to that, the tattoos looking kind of old and lived in,
but I think they probably look like that now, actually.
Some of the kids surprise me these days, they could be twenty and covered already.
Then they are just like kids really.
Joe, I'm his dad, and I'm to be kind of resented and mildly hated and ignored a bit.
But I can tell that he's proud of what I do.
I wasn't in touch with my parents whatsoever when I was that age.
I was beginning to take drugs and I wouldn't have told them anything
and I wouldn't have been interested in anything.
So his mild interest is great, I think.
Yeah, I'd like to be the first one to tattoo him.
If someone's gonna do it, it should be me, his old dad.