I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up.

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.

Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.

Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossible to explain child loss to a person who has never lost a child.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

There is no reason for anybody to have an assault weapon.

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

The Wise Man is square but not sharp, honest but not not malign, straight but not severe, bright but not dazzling.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.