Earlier this year, The Banksy Story broadcasted another lost clip featuring Banky’s voice and “Bristolian twang”. This longer piece of audio, which features in an episode of the podcast released on 21 November, also includes some of the artist’s early thoughts on vandalism, street art, ownership and impact.
“I just think it’s my right to go out and paint it. And it is equally somebody else’s right to go out and paint over it if they don’t like it, you know? It doesn’t actually take very long with a bucket of white paint to paint over things. I think it’s better if you treat the city like a big playground, you know?… It’s there to mess about in, you know?”
There was also some interesting musings on the speed with which Banksy works, too. “My mother used to cook Sunday roast every Sunday and say, ‘It takes hours to make it and minutes to eat.’ And these days, she eats microwave meals for one and seems a lot happier. I’m kind of taking that approach to art really. I want to get it done and dusted.”