If you want perfection or close to it...listen to the record.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

You can't start a fire in the pouring rain.

Being an opener is all about warming up the audience for the main band. That is always fun, pretty easy; there isn't a lot of pressure.

On tour I feel like it's always so go go...you're always just taking in and storing information and feelings and things. So for me I need time off to let all those things come out and settle.

Never apologize on stage. Most people never notice when you make a mistake or if you are having a bad show.

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.

I can't wait to be a mom and a wife, and explore that phase of life. And also see how it affects and influences my song writing and creativity.

For me I want to know everything that goes on with my business but at the end of the day I just want to live, experience, be inspired and create music.

I think it's important to make sure you learn and understand the business that you are in, but it's also important to not let that get in the way of your main focus.

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

A platform is something a candidate stands for and the voters fall for.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.

For the life of her, she couldn't understand how such an obstinate, boneheaded chauvinist could make her pulse race and her insides turn to jelly.

Faith: The opposite of dogmatism.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.