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.

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].

Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

You mean it's my destiny? she said at last.Granny shrugged. Something like that. Probably. Who knows?

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak until the finish line is crossed.

Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.