Nobody in my family ever surfed, but they would always bring me to the beach.

They say things happen for a reason You don't do them, they won't.

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.

Definitely my wife and my kid [are my biggest inspiration].

I let myself play in an unbounded world of creations on the glorious written page whenever I desire.

With patient, you shall possess your soul.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.

We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way

I want my children to see me first every morning, so I wake up at 5 and make sure to shower and exercise before they get up.

A normal fight is thirty seconds of rolling around on the floor, scrapping, that's what it is. It's not rolling over boxes or getting punched through windows.

I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future.

Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.