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

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

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

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.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

Having somebody help you doesn't mean that you have failed. It just means that you're not in it alone

Without a clear vision, you can be drifted to any shore.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal live.

I want to make a difference.

If we wish to express anger fully, the first step is to divorce the other person from any responsibility for our anger.

Donald Trump amplifies the worst instincts. And his nationalism is really a white racist supremacist nationalism.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.