On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

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

I totally forget about snowboarding in the summertime.

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

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.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

Dear, he do have a problem.

Failures when are huge, dimish the small gasps of success, but these gasps are enough to bring the successful in you

Religious faith indeed relates to that which is above us but it must arise from that which is within us.

The way it works for us is, when I watch a character and I connect to a character, I'd love to bring them back and see them again.

My psychology belongs to everyone.

Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom had to make me a cape.

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.