I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.

On tour I feel like it's always so go go...you're always just taking in and storing information and feelings and things. So for me I need time off to let all those things come out and settle.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.

If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just want to live, experience, be inspired and create music.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Each person has got a voice inside them. Communicate with it and take hold of it. Do not let it push and shove you around – you are its master!

Leave your past and live for today

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

It is values that form our decisions.

Nothing is more attractive than authenticity

Theater is such a small community that every brilliant piece of theater raises us all up.

I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

We can make up for lost money, but we can't make up for lost time.