[Jack Johnson] really helped me make the record, put it out, and then let me tour with him for two years. He really helped me out.

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.

This is love not business or politics. I love someone. How can I replace her with someone else?

... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

People make the mistake of talking about 'natural laws.' There are no natural laws. There are only temporary habits of nature.

I have enough attention already. More, I don't really need.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

Any politician who is not a unifier is not somebody that I want to be for.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.