Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life

Every new journey transforms the traveler.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

You are shaped by Your thinking. The outcome of your life cannot be better than your pattern of thought

Time makes more converts than reason.

I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

Be patient with yourself even when you make mistakes.

The only time that love is an easy game is when two other people are playing it.

However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.