"I was living in London at the time and getting quite immersed in the music of that lovely, green land. I found a bootleg single of The Stone Roses' 'Elephant Stone,' which had their iconic lemon image on the front. Their music spoke to me because of its combination of dance-floor beats, '60s guitar, twisted lyrics, and loads of swagger and attitude. The myth behind the lemon was that Ian Brown, the lead singer, had met a French man who had been in the '69 riots, who said that lemons had been used as an antidote to tear gas. I like how graphic it is, and chose my shoulder as a nice spot for it. A tattoo artist by the name of Mr. X at Into You) did the work. He went out and bought a lemon and did it by looking at that rather than the image I brought with me! Since then I have had many people wonder if it is bicycle wheel, or...on the subway I get asked if it is a different kind of slice...a pizza pie!? Classic New York, ha."

Photographed by Greg Manis