SPD: What year?
Mike McQuade: 2005

SPD: What were you up to?
MM: Just graduated college

SPD: What magazine?
MM: Juxtapoz

SPD: What was it that so enthralled you?
MM: Being introduced to artists outside of the museum world.

SPD: Do you know now who the creatives were?
MM: Honestly I never thought to look. It was all about the content to me.

SPD: How does that inform your creative now?
MM: I guess I try not to put definitions or labels on things, sometimes that can limit creativity.