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.

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.

[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].

The worldly life (sansar) is the thing created through delusion [wrong belief]. Therefore when you come to know about this wrong belief, it will go away.

FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down