Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

I had no vote in the making of such a law, and I have no intention of abiding by it, either.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Speak but little, and that little only when thy own purposes require it. Heaven has given thee two ears but only one tongue, which means: listen to two things, but be not the first to propose one.

All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.