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.

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 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.

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

I can't worry about everything at once, Elend thought with determination. I just have to trust. Trust in myself and keep going.

What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.

I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

Marriage is a duet or duel.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

Variety is the spice of life. We all want surprises.