I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

'Mormonism' has made me all I am; and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

We see an enlightened teacher to gain a sense of humor, to learn balance and proportion and of course to learn wisdom.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.