"I do not understand why something that's necessary to artists turns into an accoutrement of wealth. You do not need a loft if you're not making art. And I call it inverted suburbia. You know, you want an expanse? There are lots of places around New York to find that. I'm from New York. I've been making art since I was a kid. I went to art school. It's like, back off. You have enough money to do whatever the hell you want. Why do you need this? And then it turned into a thing where artists would move into a neighborhood and have cheap rent and developers would be right behind them and have no qualms as far as I could see about making it so they couldn't live there."