Definitely my wife and my kid [are my biggest inspiration].

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

I grew up knowing [Jack Johnson], surfing with him.

I just think it's amazing that I'm able to do both singing and surfing.

My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing.

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

[The Surf Lodge performance] is sort of like an annual thing.

I travel a lot, and being in different countries and a part of cultures, that's just such a huge inspiration for music, and one way or another, you get influenced.

Traveling is also a big inspiration for me.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Miracle focused messages propagates social vices instead of social virtues

Weight loss after pregnancy is safe but requires attention and guidelines

Manufacturing is the most important...route to prosperity.

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

I do prime time network shows like 'Blue Bloods.' I've done 'Fringe,' I've done 'The Good Wife,' done a lot of 'The Mentalist.'

There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.