Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.

But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things.

They say that maths is a language. So how do I order a pizza with extra cheese in maths?

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

A lot of artists talk about getting out of their comfort zones and being the most proud of their newest album. But it is true for me. I rethought a lot of what I do.

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.