I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

Some people attach snowboards to their feet, very few attach them to their souls.

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

I wasn't your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.

I personally think skateboarding is harder because it has so many moving parts. With snowboarding, your feet are strapped to your board.

I’m a big fan of doing what you are really bad at. A lot.

You take a crash, you get back up and next time you succeed and that's a great feeling.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I think the way to become the best is to just have fun.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I see more light than dark, but when I encounter dark I seem to get lost in it.

Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

The madder I get, the faster I go.

I think it's extremely important to challenge white brothers and sisters and think more systematically and strategically about the whiteness that they possess.

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

Even a genius has his questions.